Re: Bram, if you got hit by a bus tomorrow..

2014-03-02 Fir de Conversatie Ben Fritz
On Sunday, March 2, 2014 5:27:39 PM UTC-6, cptstubing wrote: > > > When I was considering the situation, I too had a vision like what Andre > mentioned -- dozens of forked projects and no clear direction for the average > user or even the empowered one who simply doesn't have the time to evaluat

Re: Bram, if you got hit by a bus tomorrow..

2014-03-02 Fir de Conversatie cptstubing
On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 4:04:26 AM UTC-5, Matteo Cavalleri wrote: > > > What should we do? What happens to your sources? > > > > Do you not have a clone of the Mercurial repository? What kind of > > question is this? > > I think he's talking about Bram sources, not vim's. I'm not sure we

Re: Bram, if you got hit by a bus tomorrow..

2014-02-26 Fir de Conversatie Jan Larres
Andre Sihera : > For any open source project that takes users money and believes it is > "valued" by a large "user base", this is far from "hypothetical"; it > is a very real and non-trivial discussion. Vim/Bram doesn't "take" anyone's money. Bram encourages donations to a cause that has nothing t

Re: Bram, if you got hit by a bus tomorrow..

2014-02-26 Fir de Conversatie Yuri Vic
> At least I know that Linux, its stability, and all it stands for, is > assured with or > without Mr. Torvalds. I'm sure that the world's biggest corporations > feel equally > as confident as I do which is why they stake their reputations on it > 24/7, 365. Don't be so sure. Every successful p

Re: Bram, if you got hit by a bus tomorrow..

2014-02-26 Fir de Conversatie Andre Sihera
On 26/02/14 21:36, Christian Brabandt wrote: And the user will decide, which fork to use instead. As happened 20 years ago with the many vi clones, when vim became the de facto standard. So what? I'm a user and I, like the OP, would like to know how the stability and future of my editor of c

Re: Bram, if you got hit by a bus tomorrow..

2014-02-26 Fir de Conversatie Christian Brabandt
Bram is the one major bottleneck in this project for getting patches and new features implemented. But, ironically, he is also the anchor that has kept the project together on the straight and very narrow path. Anchor disappears, ship floats away. Everybody can publish their own repository and

Re: Bram, if you got hit by a bus tomorrow..

2014-02-26 Fir de Conversatie Andre Sihera
On 26/02/14 21:06, Christian Brabandt wrote: Am 2014-02-26 12:58, schrieb Andre Sihera: On 26/02/14 12:15, guns wrote: On Tue 25 Feb 2014 at 10:14:31PM -0500, captain stubing wrote: What should we do? What happens to your sources? Do you not have a clone of the Mercurial repository? What

Re: Bram, if you got hit by a bus tomorrow..

2014-02-26 Fir de Conversatie Christian Brabandt
Am 2014-02-26 12:58, schrieb Andre Sihera: On 26/02/14 12:15, guns wrote: On Tue 25 Feb 2014 at 10:14:31PM -0500, captain stubing wrote: What should we do? What happens to your sources? Do you not have a clone of the Mercurial repository? What kind of question is this? It's the stinging qu

Re: Bram, if you got hit by a bus tomorrow..

2014-02-26 Fir de Conversatie Andre Sihera
On 26/02/14 12:15, guns wrote: On Tue 25 Feb 2014 at 10:14:31PM -0500, captain stubing wrote: What should we do? What happens to your sources? Do you not have a clone of the Mercurial repository? What kind of question is this? guns It's the stinging question about who gets control, o

Re: Bram, if you got hit by a bus tomorrow..

2014-02-26 Fir de Conversatie Matteo Cavalleri
> > What should we do? What happens to your sources? > > Do you not have a clone of the Mercurial repository? What kind of > question is this? I think he's talking about Bram sources, not vim's. I'm not sure we can clone a human right now... science needs to advance further. -- -- You recei

Re: Bram, if you got hit by a bus tomorrow..

2014-02-26 Fir de Conversatie Marc Weber
Excerpts from captain stubing's message of Wed Feb 26 03:14:31 + 2014: > What should we do? What happens to your sources? What should we do if you got hit by a bus? :) (If Bram gets hit by a bus I hope the bus was driving at walking speed only) Multiple people have access to the sourceforge w

Re: Bram, if you got hit by a bus tomorrow..

2014-02-25 Fir de Conversatie guns
On Tue 25 Feb 2014 at 10:14:31PM -0500, captain stubing wrote: > What should we do? What happens to your sources? Do you not have a clone of the Mercurial repository? What kind of question is this? guns pgpniFuXb1130.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bram, if you got hit by a bus tomorrow..

2014-02-25 Fir de Conversatie captain stubing
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