emacs to repalce CVS; ESR writing survey paper

[John S. Yates, Jr.]

On New Years day ESR started a massive thread entitled
"What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like":

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/85669

RMS periodically pops up attempting to understand the
concepts of DVCSs.  The concept of branches, multiple
heads and the meaning of URLs obviously requires some
clarification:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/86502

In a subsequent thread entitled "It's not yet time to
anoint git, or anything else" ESR announces his survey
paper and solicits help:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/85893

RMS has agreed to have the fruits of this research
guide the selection of a DVCS for the emacs project:

  RMS> I think that arguing in the abstract about the various
  RMS> DVCS programs and various ways of using them is taking
  RMS> up lots of time and is not accomplishing much.
  RMS>
  RMS> So let's await the study ESR is doing.  Until that is
  RMS> done, could we please stop arguing about this?

/john