Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > * I'm wondering what the overall goal is - git's origin as a neutral > > ground was fine but it hasn't seemed to take off as a viable > > alternative for general use. Do you care about that? Is it ok > > that git is it's own little niche? > > > > (Junio, Linus?) > > I am neither, but FWIW I did not have the impression that it is in its own > little niche. I'm neither too. But I don't think Git is in a niche. OK, well, in the overall world of software development its certainly in the niche of version control, as uh, it doesn't do Enterprise Resource Planning and Large Scale Embezzlement of Monies (ERPaLSEM). Actually I've seen a number of people on the interweb saying things like they were switching their project to Git because they felt it had more staying power than say Monotone or Mercurial, partly because the kernel devs were actively using it, partly because the file formats are so simple and sane, and partly because lots of other projects are using it or are seriously considering it. > At the GSoC mentor summit, I encountered a rather different stance: people > did not _know_ what distributed SCM means, and were rather afraid of the > concept. Some of them seemed to fight changing their known procedures > tooth and nail. Which is fine by me (I don't have to force anybody to > use git, thankyouverymuch). Yes, this attitude *shocked the hell out of me*. I really did not expect it. I nearly keeled over and died when I realized what the folks in the back corner of the room were saying. WINE uses Git. Some folks were outright pissed off that there was only one committer in WINE. I think they felt the project was maybe going to die because there was only one committer who could apply patches. That may wind up being true (there's only so far that one human can scale without trusted helpers for different submodules of a large system) but its not Git's fault, or any other DVCS's fault for that matter. At least its easy to fork WINE. On the other hand active participants of two major organizations (KDE and Eclipse) are starting to seriously look at Git. The interest in Git is growing in both of those groups, which can only be good for us. We'll learn more about how these groups do development, and how we can best help them to accomplish more. -- Shawn. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
