[IPython-dev] Github transition, ready, go on Saturday?

Edward K. Ream edreamleo at gmail.com
Thu May 6 10:03:05 EDT 2010


On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Edward K. Ream <edreamleo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  I wish I had asked you straight away whether you had contacted the
>> bzr folks.  I've found them to be quite helpful.  Did you contact them
>> or did you just assume that the problems were intractable?
>
> They were very helpful when I contacted them with specific questions,
> actually, and for that I'm very thankful.
>
> The point is that github and git provide, *for us*, a fundamentally
> smoother workflow than bzr/lp.  I wish bzr and lp the very best as
> projects, but I simply don't have the time to sort out the multiple
> issues we kept on running into with the tools, when git and github
> *just work*, out of the box, phenomenally well, without any further
> hassles.  I'm not interested in becoming a full time bzr/lp
> designer/architect/contributor, I'm afraid.

Neither am I :-)  In your opinion, should projects such as Leo that
rely on bzr be concerned about its stability?

Edward
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