On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Aahz <a...@pythoncraft.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009, Terry Reedy wrote: >> Michael Urman wrote: >>> Guido: >>>> >>>> We're switching to Mercurial (Hg). >>> >>> And two hours later, GNOME announces their migration to git is >>> underway. I'd suspect a series of April Fools jokes, if it weren't two >>> days early. :) >> >> Like Python, Gnome was/is using SVN and tested (at least) GIT, bzr, and >> hg mirrors, starting somewhat earlier than Python, for DVCS migration. >> As announced in January, the majority of *their* developers preferred >> GIT. They started conversion then, in January, and made a progress >> announcement on March 19 (not yesterday). >> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.devel.announce/15 >> >> I fail to see any joke. Different people have different tool preferences. > > As Michael said, joke suspicion comes from the timing.
AFAIC the only joke was that I announced the decision on Twitter first... > Combine that with Guido's previous post about the Van Lindberg clause... Um, that was on psf-members, which has much smaller audience than python-dev. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com