Open Stack

On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:35:56 +0200
Soren Hansen <soren at linux2go.dk> wrote:

>> Why can't we simply use the better tool at this moment?
> 
> For the sake of the argument, I'll pretend for second that git is a
> better tool. What happens when the bzr developers fix the shortcomins
> we've identified here, and bzr becomes the better tool, would you
> support a switch back to bzr? If not, why not?

Yeah, of course. Let's use the best tool at that moment. That's what
I'm asking for.


> You seem to be ignoring the cost of switching. A cost that you're not
> going to pay. I, and the other people working on toooling, are going
> to have to pay it, so yes, I'm feeling rather attached to a lot of our
> existing choices of tools/technology.

Sorry that you pay the cost of switching. But it's temporary and many
other developers are paying cost of being forced to use the inferior
scm every day.

Why do you think that we (openstack developers) can't live without the
tools around launchpad? Ten times bigger community (linux kernel) has
been fine without such tools.