Re: [Dovecot] Bus factor of dovecot / GIT

2011-11-16 Thread Steinar Bang
> Timo Sirainen : > I'm not as much against git anymore as I was when I switched to hg, > but I don't see much benefits in switching to git either. I highly > doubt I'd get even a single patch more if I used git instead of hg. FWIW the distingushing feature of git isn't that it is a ditribute

Re: [Dovecot] Bus factor of dovecot / GIT

2011-11-09 Thread Pascal Volk
On 11/09/2011 10:29 AM Thomas Koch wrote: > Hi, > > somebody from the kolab groupware project recently explained me that the Bus- > Factor[1] of around 1 would be one of their primary reasons not to use > Dovecot > and stick with Cyrus. And what is their primary reason for the lame excuse? Too

Re: [Dovecot] Bus factor of dovecot / GIT

2011-11-09 Thread Todd Rinaldo
On Nov 9, 2011, at 7:53 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 10:29 +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: > >> Somehow related: Since the free software world[2] slowly converges towards >> GIT >> as the "one and only" VCS, have you thought about a switch? It's much more >> likely that somebody

Re: [Dovecot] Bus factor of dovecot / GIT

2011-11-09 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 10:29 +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: > somebody from the kolab groupware project recently explained me that the Bus- > Factor[1] of around 1 would be one of their primary reasons not to use > Dovecot > and stick with Cyrus. > > What do you think about that? Is the bus factor mu

Re: [Dovecot] Bus factor of dovecot / GIT

2011-11-09 Thread Peer Heinlein
Am Mittwoch, 9. November 2011, 10:29:37 schrieb Thomas Koch: Hi, > somebody from the kolab groupware project recently explained me that the > Bus- Factor[1] of around 1 would be one of their primary reasons not to > use Dovecot and stick with Cyrus. The problem is: Even it Timo will be hitten b

Re: [Dovecot] Bus factor of dovecot / GIT

2011-11-09 Thread Sandro Tosi
On 11/09/2011 10:29 AM, Thomas Koch wrote: Somehow related: Since the free software world[2] slowly converges towards GIT as the "one and only" VCS, have you thought about a switch? It's much more likely that somebody checks out your code, looks into it and provides patches if the VCS is already

[Dovecot] Bus factor of dovecot / GIT

2011-11-09 Thread Thomas Koch
Hi, somebody from the kolab groupware project recently explained me that the Bus- Factor[1] of around 1 would be one of their primary reasons not to use Dovecot and stick with Cyrus. What do you think about that? Is the bus factor much higher then 1? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor