Owen Taylor wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 17:45 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 23:23 +0100, BJörn Lindqvist wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> 2008/10/28 Mikael Hallendal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> I can't really see us coming to a consensus on this topic. Even after a >>>> vote >>>> we would have people continuing to use Bazaar if Git win and vice verse. >>>> GNOME is by nature a distributed project with a lot of sub modules, >>>> maintainers and thus preferences. >>> I think that is doubtful. Most people do not care what VCS GNOME uses. >>> For those who care, and like DVCS, their opinions are probably >>> something like this: >>> >>> svn 10 points >>> git 100 +/- 5 points >>> hg 100 +/- 5 points >>> bzr 100 +/- 5 points >>> >>> That is, it doesn't really matter what DVCS GNOME uses. They are all >>> great systems, all superior to svn. There _may_ be people who have >>> their favorite DVCS and would be deeply unhappy if their alternative >>> didn't win, but I think they are in a very (very) small minority, if >>> they even exists. I think keeping the GNOME developer environment >>> coherent is much more important than appeasing to individuals >>> preferences. >>> >>> Just have a vote about it. Voting is fun, encourages participation and >>> involvement, so make as many people eligible as possible. >> Why don't we put out a preliminary, non-binding poll to >> all active account holders? Something like this: >> >> Stuff I actively do (check all that apply): >> [ ] Active development of some set of modules >> [ ] Cherry-picking bug fixing on lots of modules >> [ ] Usability work on lots of modules >> [ ] Accessibility work on lots of modules >> [ ] Documentation >> [ ] Translation >> >> My take on VCS for Gnome: >> ( ) Keep svn >> ( ) Switch to git >> ( ) Switch to bzr >> ( ) Switch to hg >> ( ) Switch to anything distributed >> ( ) I just don't care >> ( ) Can I have cvs back please? >> >> The first question allows us to look at the numbers >> for interesting cross-sections of our contributors. >> Maybe there are other questions that would give us >> some meaningful breakdowns. > > This sounds like a good idea to me. Just poll all people with svn > access; people who haven't committed in years will largely self-select > out anyways.
Interesting that you bring it up. We were talking about this at Speck Hackfest last week and we came to the same conclusion, and I added to my TODO list to do a poll of all active committers when I get back. > Might be interesting to ask about level familiarity and/or use of > different systems as well. > > Question for gnome-infrastructure: How do we move forward on it? Do we > have an easier alternative at hand then just writing low-tech one off > application? I was thinking that we can either use the Election Committee's facilities, or use one of the freely available polling websites. > - Owen behdad _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list