On 03/27/2015 12:00, Ben Fritz wrote:
On Friday, March 27, 2015 at 1:21:48 PM UTC-5, James McCoy wrote:
Why should this be different than any other open source project? If
you want to contribute, you need to learn the tools that are being
used. When tools change, then something different needs to be learned.
It's not up to the project to accommodate every user's individual
desires.
Because so far the ONLY reason I've seen for moving to git AT ALL is "it
makes the git users happy." Why are the git users more important than
the Mercurial users?
+1 to this part. vim was already being developed as an open source
project and all contributors, lurkers, and people with private patches
against vim had learned the tools that were being used and had figured
out their workflows. Everything was just fine. The project was forced
to change hosting providers but imho changing the VCS was unnecessary.
Regards,
Navdeep
And generally projects move to obviously better or easier tools, when
there is consensus that the tools are obviously better or easier.
We're talking about moving to a tool with equivalent features, but that
is harder to learn, easier to screw up, and has more complications to
keep in mind. And we had no consensus for the move. What we had was a
bunch of "hey you should move to github!" drive-by posts, followed up by
responses as to why we shouldn't, and then Bram came out and said "well
I moved us to Github even though I like git better, because most people
wanted that".
Personally I disagree with the move to git AT ALL. We should have stayed
on the system we were using, and shutting down the hosting provider is
not a good excuse to change systems. It's a good excuse to find a new
hosting provider. It's not even like GitHub has obvious benefits over
BitBucket or anywhere else. In fact it has obvious drawbacks: we are
REQUIRED to change systems if we go there.
But it looks like reasoned decision making is being overwhelmed by git's
inertia for yet another project. Don't bother setting up a mirror if
it's just a throwaway read-only copy no better than a glorified FTP
server. If I want to I can pull directly from Github with hg-git.
Dealing with that will be easier than dealing with multiple separate
repository locations.
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