On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development

From: John Wiegley Subject: On the subject of Git, Bazaar, and the future of Emacs development Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:38:26 +0000 User-agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3 (darwin)

Hello all, We have often debated the merits of Git vs. Bazaar, and which one the GNU project should use for Emacs development. I think now is an appropriate time to revisit this decision. My main reason for bringing this up again is that Bazaar development has effectively stalled. There are major bugs which have been in their bug-tracker for years now -- bugs affecting Emacs development, such as the ELPA repository -- whach have been ignored all this time. There are also other factors, but this one alone is significant enough that I think it justifies us switching over to Git all by itself. So, to Richard as the undisputed Czar of all things Emacs: can we now, pretty please, switch to Git? :) I'm happy to coordinate whatever resources it takes to make a full and faithful conversion from Bzr happen as soon as possible. Yours, John Wiegley

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