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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Choosing a distributed version control system
 for PHP
From: ivan.enderlin@hoa-project.net ("Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa")

On 25/08/11 11:15, Derick Rethans wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Stas Malyshev wrote:
>
>> On 8/24/11 2:03 PM, David Soria Parra wrote:
>>> after 3 weeks of discussion, I think we are ready to start voting on
>>> the DVCS RFC.  If you think something is missing or should be
>>> explained in more detail, let me know.
>> I'm not sure choosing DCVS by vote is actually a good way to go here.
>> I think we need much more input from people that maintain all the
>> infrastructure we're using now and would be doing the move. If we
>> don't have people committed to making it happen majority-based vote is
>> useless IMHO.
> I agree, and I also think that before people can make a choice they need
> to have played with all the options. Just picking "git" because that's
> what you heard of and what all the fan boys like is *not* the correct
> way to go. In order to make a choice, and even consider switching away
> from SVN, something that *works* just fine, you need to know the systems
> (ie, git and hg).
+10.
I think a vote is prematured right now.

Cheers.

-- 
Ivan Enderlin
Developer of Hoa
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