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[Monty Taylor <mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/08/2011 02:27 AM, Chris Behrens wrote:
> Sure, I agree with the below.  I tend to think the PPB is the place
> for the decision for the reasons you state below (though that's more
> than 3-4 people tops).  But whether it's the PPB or some other small
> group of people, I'd want to see everybody have a chance to provide
> enough feedback for that small group to be able to make a
> well-informed decision.  Obviously some sort of time limit has to be
> set, but there should be enough time and communication that the
> resulting decision doesn't come out of no where.  That is a blanket
> statement of my opinion and would be my thoughts no matter how
> previous events transpired.
> 
> I say this for future decisions.  At the moment, Gerrit is what was
> chosen and I'm just interested in seeing if we can alleviate some of
> the pain my team is having working with it.

Totally! Consider Jim and myself at your disposal on IRC (mtaylor and
jeblair) We're both also interested in trying to alleviate pain you're
having.

Monty

> 
> On Sep 8, 2011, at 12:11 AM, Soren Hansen wrote:
> 
>> If this thread has anything clear to me at all, it's that adding 
>> *more* people to this discussion isn't going to bring us any closer
>> to an agreement.
>> 
>> Here's a thought:
>> 
>> How about we appoint (formally, informally, whatever, it's beside
>> the point) someone (3-4 people tops) to come up with a set of tools
>> and the rest of us just shut up, use the tools, write some cool
>> software and don't waste another full development cycle arguing
>> about stuff we'll never agree on anyway?
>> 
>> Yes, I will probably waste a good 10-20 minutes retraining my
>> muscle memory to not type "bzr", but rather "darcs", "hg", "git" or
>> whatever this group comes up with. The alternative is to argue
>> about this for months, wait for something to get built based on
>> this discussion, start using it, wait a couple of weeks until the
>> next mutiny, lather, rinse, repeat. Seriously. Who -- apart from
>> our competitors -- gains anything at all from this?
>> 
>> -- Soren Hansen        | http://linux2go.dk/ Ubuntu Developer    |
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/ OpenStack Developer |
>> http://www.openstack.org/
>> 
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