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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).

6 of 252 comments (clear)

  1. Git, not Github by codl · · Score: 5, Informative

    ESR's original posting does not mention Github at all.

    1. Re:Git, not Github by Desler · · Score: 5, Informative

      "The article" (the first link which is to hypnosec's spam site) also says Github. ESR's post says merely Git.

  2. GNU Savannah supports git by byolinux · · Score: 4, Informative

    No need to move to a proprietary hosting service like Github.

    I wrote about this previously: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/savannah

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  3. Git... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    He wants to move emacs to git and not to Github. Journalists...

    1. Re:Git... by Desler · · Score: 5, Informative

      To add, Ravi Mandali's first version of his spam site was called "Hypno Security" which just basically regurgitated a couple of paragraphs of other people's news as "articles" and started spamming it here.

      http://www.freelancer.com/u/hypnosec.html

  4. git, not GitHub by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The original source (ESR himself) never mentioned GitHub. Just git. Can people stop conflating the two please?