On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 20:04 -0700, Andy Tai wrote: > Hi, I have volunteered to maintain GNU Arch. and the > FSF has agreed to this. With the support of Tom, I > fill in as the maintainer of GNU Arch.
Congratulations.
Nice to see reality catch up with theory, and somebody stepping up to
save a useful but orphaned piece of code from abandonment.
> My plan is to be conservative and to merge in bug
> fixes and other feature enhancements (mainly usability
> ones), such as these in bazaar, in a gradual manner.
> The 1.3.x code will be the basis for future releases.
> I do not intend to make revolutionary changes to GNU
> Arch 1.x as the debate is still up on what is the best
> approach for SCM data storage. I aim to make Arch 1.x
> stay usable for people still relying on it.
Reasonable and pragmatic.
By the way, PyArch/PyBaz is also up for adoption.
> Arch 1.x shall continue until a clear winner among the
> next generation distributed free SCMs emerges.
That's likely to take a while. And it might never happen. I see no
strong reason for the developers of independent upstream projects to
converge on the same VCS. Though VCS developers do try to give them
some :)
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