Promoting the use of Mercurial; was: Re: gnome dvcs survey results

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Montag 05 Januar 2009 20:46:08 schrieb Neal Becker:
> http://blogs.gnome.org/newren/2009/01/03/gnome-dvcs-survey-results/

This somehow bothers me, since it shows that some people use momentum as main 
argument for switching to git. 

I also found an error in my way of talking about Mercurial when I discuss 
VCSs. I tend to say "git is more for more technical people", but that's a big 
mistake. These more technical people are those who flock to projects in their 
early stage. 

Instead I think I should say "git is most useful for those who need to 
maintain complex workflows and forces the complexity needed for these tasks on 
every user. Mercurial on the other hand just works but offers extensions for 
the complex tasks."

But I'm not quite sure if that is the best way for Mercurial. 

Mercurial is the VCS which works best for me, and I think it also is the VCS 
whose adoption would be the best for most projects. 

And I think the next place to work at is the DVCS PEP for Python: 
- http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg7fctr4_40dvjkdg64

I'd be happy to see and join discussions about it in here (I've been sending 
comments to Alexandre for some time, now). 

Best wishes, 
Arne
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