From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/69341 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bojan Nikolic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus VCS issues Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:40:33 +0000 Message-ID: <87aawgk5by.fsf@bnikolic.co.uk> References: <1234049754.2390.1299107629@webmail.messagingengine.com> <86d4drnzf1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fxin9qgm.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <867i1otupq.fsf@lifelogs.com> <874owos9il.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <867i1kicou.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877hxjzm2u.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87aawse3w6.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87tyur451i.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <877hrlwvwk.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1263487316 5304 80.91.229.12 (14 Jan 2010 16:41:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:41:56 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M17746@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jan 14 17:41:49 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NVSlY-0001E6-4l for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:41:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NVSky-0001jv-QD; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:41:12 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NVSkv-0001jE-2e for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:41:09 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NVSks-0003DS-Fq for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:41:08 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1NVSkj-00074R-00 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:40:57 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NVSkh-0000jV-R7 for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:40:55 +0100 Original-Received: from cpc2-camd2-0-0-cust1575.hari.cable.virginmedia.com ([82.35.46.40]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:40:55 +0100 Original-Received: from bojan by cpc2-camd2-0-0-cust1575.hari.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:40:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc2-camd2-0-0-cust1575.hari.cable.virginmedia.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xAqP6MoR2Yzi3KMNpuQNZnXGqxE= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:69341 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > Whether we use Subversion or Git or Bazaar, let's use something more > reasonable. It would make sync with Emacs, branching, tagging, and > releasing simpler. A DVCS is IMHO the best choice today and I would > support either Git or Bazaar. > > We could still host it on gnus.org, of course, and the old CVS server > could be available as a read-only mirror. But it could live on Savannah > as well. I'm not much of a contributor but I think standardising on Bazaar would make entry into Gnus development much easier. I hope this can be done. -- Bojan Nikolic || http://www.bnikolic.co.uk