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["P. Christeas" <xrg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 22 January 2010, you wrote:
> Although I personally also prefer git over bazaar I think we need to take
>  into account several things:

It currently is only the practical side (I don't claim it to be the ultimate 
solution), but I may have some answer to your concerns:

> - Though a good version control system can improve productivity I don't
>  think git alone solves the problem we have at the moment.
If we lower the "cost" of maintaining the code, our resources could be 
exploited better, into real development.
One interesting point is that merges (the ones that are non-trivial and 
contain conflicts) can be /outsourced/ . This means that, even if Tiny are the 
sole mainteners of the "stable" branch, they can always fetch an appropriately 
done merge from any partner that dared do that. 
If you add some testing tools (oor, the "base_module_check" perhaps?), then we 
automate much of the release procedure and reduce the resources needed for our 
regular work. 

> - Bazaar has slightly better support on Windows than git has (at least that
> was like this some time ago, please correct  me if I'm wrong). Not that it
> can't be used, but it's easier to use bazaar than git in that platform. I
> don't use Windows very much but there are people that do..
Support for Windows-based development is a waste of resources, IMHO, because 
we impose a procedural overhead to *all* developers, just because windows are 
crippled and some people can't abandon them. I'm not paying the windows "tax", 
for one.

> - Moving everything to git at the moment would be very painful, the problem
>  is there are no resources and making such a change would require lots of
>  resources.
There is already some solutions to that: I have long used the 'tailor' tool, 
which is trivial. The newer 'git-fast-import' one should fully cover us. For 
one, I can help and undertake this task.

All this thread is still *not* a suggestion that we immediately move over. But 
everybody is free to consider this solution as a remedy to our current 
situation. I believe my public branches could be a starting point for anybody 
that wants to test this technology, already.