Emacs Needs To Move To GitHub, Says ESR 252
hypnosec writes "Eric S. Raymond, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, has recommended that Emacs should move to another version control system like GitHub, as bzr is dying. In an email, Raymond highlighted the key reasons why he believes that Emacs should move. Raymond said that bzr is moribund; its dev list has flatlined; and most of Canonical's in-house projects have already abandoned bzr and moved to GitHub. ESR believes that bzr's codebase is sufficiently mature to be used as a production tool, but he does mention that continuing to use the revision control system will have 'social and signaling effects damaging to Emacs's prospects.'"
Update: 01/06 20:50 GMT by U L : ESR did not suggest Github the proprietary hosting platform for git, but rather git the version control system. Which is actually already available on Savannah (the bazaar repository is automatically synced with the git repository).
Surprised (Score:5, Funny)
I'm surprised that emacs didn't already have a version control system built into. It has everything else.
Cheers,
Dave
Re:What's bzr? (Score:5, Funny)
How bizarre.
The cathedral and the bizarre?
Re:Surprised (Score:5, Funny)
It has everything but still lacks decent editor
Can't we settle this like geeks? (Score:5, Funny)
Given sufficient time, I'm sure we can generalize away any petty disagreements!
Re:Surprised (Score:5, Funny)
You will spend eternity in a circle of hell where you're forced to use Notepad.
Re:Git... (Score:3, Funny)
No, actually worse. His grammar and factual accuracy makes the Slashdot editors look top notch.
Emacs is awesome!! (Score:2, Funny)