From: Federico Builes <federico.builes@...>
Date: 2009-01-02T09:01:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21054] Re: Happy new year and... moving Ruby development to Git?

Michael Klishin writes:
 > 
 > On 01.01.2009, at 21:00, Federico Builes wrote:
 > 
 > > Vladimir Sizikov set up a MRI repository for the Rubyspec project at
 > > http://github.com/rubyspec/matzruby/. It contains branches for all the
 > > current branches in the SVN repository so don't be afraid if you see  
 > > it empty.
 > 
 > And it's great and useful. The question is, if a lot of people in the  
 > community do use Git extensively already, and at least with Rails and  
 > Merb it proven itself being worth the switch because aspiring  
 > contributors *do* find it easier to contribute, what really holds Ruby  
 > core team from making this move? I just want to understand.

Just for the record, I totally agree with you on this. I think that the
"open" nature of Git gives people the impression that they can experiment and
that a repository is there for you to play, to play, to improve, not to read
the code and keep it as a sacred vault.

With regards to the centralized nature of Subversion (I think James Gray
brought it up), remember we can have a central copy (the original repository)
who'd be controlled by the current ruby-core and then people can start
forking from there and we'd have all the benefits of both SVN and Git.

-- 
Federico