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Emacs Needs To Move To GitHub, Says ESR

Posted by timothy on from the this-way-to-the-bazaar dept.

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).

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  1. Surprised by DaveAtFraud · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm surprised that emacs didn't already have a version control system built into. It has everything else.

    Cheers,
    Dave

    --
    They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
    Ben
    1. Re:Surprised by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      It has everything but still lacks decent editor

    2. Re:Surprised by ebno-10db · · Score: 4, Funny

      You will spend eternity in a circle of hell where you're forced to use Notepad.

  2. Re:What's bzr? by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 5, Funny

    How bizarre.

    The cathedral and the bizarre?

  3. Can't we settle this like geeks? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why make a contentious choice between bzr and git when we could implement a new, metalevel distributed revision control system that supports revision control across multiple revision control systems, each potentially running on multiple nodes?

    Given sufficient time, I'm sure we can generalize away any petty disagreements!

  4. Re:Git... by Desler · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, actually worse. His grammar and factual accuracy makes the Slashdot editors look top notch.

  5. Emacs is awesome!! by Andover+Chick · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just wanted to say, unrelated to the GitHub discussion, that Emacs is awesome! I've been using it since the mid-80s on 2400 baud modems and have been a big fan of Stallman and the boys. There are things I'd like, for example a GUI object browser. But overall it is f-a-n-t-a-s-t-i-c!