Xlib moved to git

[Stuart Kreitman]

Keith and all:

It does matter that we act as a COMMUNITY, and as you and many others 
took part in the early
conversations 3 years ago where we all shared the desire to build this 
cohesive structure, it is
difficult to understaned why one would risk making a unilateral decision 
that affects so may.

The modularization effort in contrast was something that was debated for 
a while, what turned
out to be a reasonable length of time, as evidenced by the way the 
modularization project work
was performed by a good broad cross-section of people and delivered so 
smoothly.

So my question about all this is: If  the code management tool is 
different for arbitrary modules,
doesn't that contribute to the confusion and raise the barrier for 
contributors to move among
the parts of the system?

At the very least, we should have some public discussion about the tools 
that are out there and
let more opinions and experiences get expressed. Some of this has been 
discussed, but not in
any real detail afaik.

skk

Stuart Kreitman wrote:

> alan:
>
> I'd like to know how pissed to get at this. Is he forking 
> freedesktop.org  or just pushing the envelope?
> Do you know if there are enough people like us out there to keep X.org 
> alive in the event
> of a  fork?
>
> skk
>
>
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>
>> Keith Packard wrote:
>>
>>> Development for the X library has been moved to git. 
>>
>>
>>
>> Since the decision to do this seems to have been made in private
>> discussions, can you explain to the rest of us why git was chosen
>> for us over subversion or mercurial, which seemed to be the leading
>> contenders to replace CVS in discussions until very recently?
>>
>