Reinventing the wheel might be a good idea if the wheel then rolls faster <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Scott James Remnant <<a href="mailto:scott@ubuntu.com">scott@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 08:58 -0500, Adrian Perez wrote: > So, I might propose to have a voting on which VCS system we will use for > our centralized approach, (if that hasn't happened already). > </div>Bazaar was designed and written to be the distributed version control system for distributions, in particular Ubuntu. There is an enormous amount of infrastructure built up around it, and a large number of people working on it. We do not presume (as a community) to tell people what they should and should not be working on. If those people are happy working on Bazaar, then that is entirely their decision. We would not hold a vote to tell people to stop what they are doing. If another group of people were to work on GIT, Mercurial or some new DVCS - making improvements to better suit a distribution, and were to put the same amount of work into building an infrastructure around it, then that is entirely their choice. Having two competing infrastructures would be cause for a discussion amongst the Technical Board about which one (if either) we recommended. Personally (as a member of the TB), in that situation, I'd be more likely to ask why the GIT or Mercurial folk didn't instead leverage the existing bzr infrastructure. For example, by adding support to their DVCS to be able to pull from and push to the LP server. That way users could use whichever command-line tool they wanted, and we'd all have access to the same branches. Scott -- Scott James Remnant <a href="mailto:scott@ubuntu.com">scott@ubuntu.com</a> -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </blockquote></div>