Re: [RFC] Moving from Bazaar (bzr) to git

[Gregg Levine]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder'
Serbinenko <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 24.06.2013 12:27, Mikko Rantalainen wrote:
>>
>> Bruce Dubbs, 2013-06-23 00:52 (Europe/Helsinki):
>>>
>>> Paul Menzel wrote:
>>>>
>>>> this is *not* the start of a flame war about what VCS is the best.
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully everyone will agree, that git is the most popular one in the
>>>> FOSS world (Linux, freedesktop.org, GNOME, KDE, ...) and a lot of people
>>>> are now familiar with the basic git commands. So using Bazaar is one
>>>> more thing to deal with for new contributors before making a
>>>> contribution to GRUB. (I know there is git-bzr-ng, but it is still one
>>>> more step.)
>>>
>>>
>>> Personally, I prefer subversion, but I'm not a GRUB developer.  The
>>> choice of version control can be similar emacs/vi or Bourne Shell/C
>>> Shell, so it really should be the choice of the primary developers.
>>
>>
>> I disagree. The choice of version control means a lot more than working
>> environment of a single developer (primary developer or not) because
>> that is the medium for sharing the source code. Even Linus himself uses
>> git over patches from email, even though the latter method is not bad
>> either for a single patch.
>>
>> Once you master even a single DVCS system (e.g. Git, Mercurial, Bazaar),
>> the limitations caused by subversion or any other centralized version
>> control system start to look much greater than before.
>>
>> I'd suggest trying to apply the workflow used by git development for
>> grub, too.
>>
>> Make sure to have a mirror at github.com and if you don't want to use
>> github's issue tracker, put a big disclaimer about that in github. As
>> far as I know, you cannot disable public issue tracker in github
>> repository's settings.
>>
> Moving away from savannah is out of the question. Savannah is official place
> for GNU projects and as such we'll stay at savannah.
>
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Hello!
I agree. Moving away from hosting there is not an option. But what
about the decision concerning BZR?

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