From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Thu Sep 3 19:32:04 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 384463C8E06 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2020 19:32:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd-lists@bsdforge.com) Received: from udns.ultimatedns.net (static-24-113-41-81.wavecable.com [24.113.41.81]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "ultimatedns.net", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4Bj9tC5Zl9z3fGM; Thu, 3 Sep 2020 19:32:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd-lists@bsdforge.com) Received: from ultimatedns.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by udns.ultimatedns.net (8.16.1/8.16.1) with ESMTP id 083JWNcU066485; Thu, 3 Sep 2020 12:32:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd-lists@bsdforge.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2020 12:32:23 -0700 From: Chris To: Kristof Provost Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Plans for git In-Reply-To: <967D73EA-880E-413D-B748-62A406C46524@FreeBSD.org> References: <20200902045939.GA15897@eureka.lemis.com> <20200902060117.GG53210@home.opsec.eu> <20200902063136.GA47543@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20200902164706.GA49777@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <5c89b4d27281f5dfffc3252a90013b0ac6c763d7.camel@freebsd.org> <5c832482-b2bc-47e4-8762-8f5a886d5f11@www.fastmail.com> <68585ca4-5ca4-40d3-b2f4-67ff3b35b6ae@www.fastmail.com> <0be2ae57d1c58e2091f4cc4484731df0@bsdforge.com> <967D73EA-880E-413D-B748-62A406C46524@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: UDNSMS/17.0 Message-ID: <9f89dc553e7d7b0884c2862329bdfeae@bsdforge.com> X-Sender: bsd-lists@bsdforge.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4Bj9tC5Zl9z3fGM X-Spamd-Bar: / X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.00 / 15.00]; ASN(0.00)[asn:11404, ipnet:24.113.0.0/16, country:US]; local_wl_ip(0.00)[24.113.41.81] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2020 19:32:04 -0000 On 2020-09-03 11:33, Kristof Provost wrote: > On 3 Sep 2020, at 19:56, Chris wrote: >> Why was the intention to switch NOT announced as such MUCH sooner? >> > There was discussion about a possible switch to git on the freebsd-git > mailing > list as early as February 2017: > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-git/2017-February/000092.html > > Ed gave a talk about FreeBSD and git back in 2018: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8wQ88d85s4 > > The Git Transition Working group was mentioned in the quarterly status > reports a > year ago: https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2019-07-2019-09.html > and > https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2019-04-2019-06.html It appears to me that the references you make here all allude to _investigation_ of a _possibility_ as opposed to a _likelihood_, or an _inevitable_. IMHO a change as significant as this, which will require tossing years of tooling out the window, and an untold amount of _re_tooling. Should have created an announcement at _least_ as significant as a new release gets on the mailing lists. Thanks for taking the time to reply, Kristof. > > Regards, > Kristof --Chris