Re: MAINTAINERS file

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Re: MAINTAINERS file

From: Juanma Barranquero

Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS file

Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 01:35:41 +0100

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Thomas Lord <address@hidden> wrote:
> Probably so but any group of smart people could easily spend
> a year arguing about it. Not even a year arguing about which system
> is best but a year arguing just about what "best" means in this context.
>
> Over-optimizing a choice like that can be a *huge* resource
> suck and projects and groups fail all the time because of falling
> into such traps.
Perhaps so, but on the other hand, many a project, some of them quite
big, have been able to select a dVCS without spending a year arguing
or failing into any trap.
> Bad choices of X happen but, they tend to get ironed out well so
> when it comes time to pick an X, there's no great reason to spend
> too much time deliberating over it.
There's a difference between "not [...] to spend too much time" and
not spending time at all.
> (Maybe, though, it is about time for a new task list and "vision
> sketch" of a complete GNU. For example, an effort could be made
> to assemble a candidate FSF/GNU distribution with the expectation
> that the effort will fail, but will yield a list of what work remains to
> be done.)
That would be interesting.
 Juanma

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