Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Maintainership, and whiners...

[Karel Gardas]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, address@hidden wrote:

> Blech, all this "Tom sucks as a maintainer" crap irks me quite badly.
> If people think he did such a bad job, why can't someone step up as a
> maintainer and try doing a better job?  Seriously, I dare you all.

Well, Walter tried in the past and ArX is the result. That was in time 
where Arch and BitKeeper was the only usable distributed SCMs. The 
question now is why to step up and start maintaining either tla or revc 
when a lot happened in DSCM space in the past and a lot of systems are 
curretly alive and maintained. Also Arch (larch) was one of the first DSCM 
in free software world (here Tom deserves _BIG_ thanks and he together 
with Arch already does have its place in the free software history), but 
world has changed a bit from technology point of view recently, prefering 
BitKeeper-like operation and Arch now seems to be a bit out-dated. 
Question is why to spend time on something like that when your time might 
be more usefull on another project?

Thanks to Tom and others for keeping larch/tla alive for so long time!

Karel
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Karel Gardas                  address@hidden
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