Re: MAINTAINERS file [LWN.net]

From:		Richard Stallman <rms-AT-gnu.org>
To:		David Kastrup <dak-AT-gnu.org>
Subject:		Re: MAINTAINERS file
Date:		Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:18:10 -0500
Message-ID:		<E1JYB74-00028E-Qw@fencepost.gnu.org>
Cc:		lekktu-AT-gmail.com, eliz-AT-gnu.org, jeremy-AT-jeremyms.com, emacs-devel-AT-gnu.org
Archive-link:		Article, Thread

    git is the source code management system for Linux, and Linux is the
    predominant kernel used (and endorsed for use) in GNU systems.

That is not particularly important, because Linux isn't a GNU package.
If it were a GNU package, I would write to its maintainers to suggest
using Bzr.

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why?

Posted Mar 21, 2008 10:18 UTC (Fri) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

Would be interesting to hear technical foundation for such an suggestion.

If you read the thread

Posted Mar 21, 2008 20:37 UTC (Fri) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]

If you read the thread this is the reasoning behind it:

> The GNU Project is not just a collection of software packages.  Its
> intended result is a coherent operating system.  It is particularly
> important therefore that GNU packages should work well with other GNU
> packages.  For instance, we would like Emacs to work well with git or
> mercurial, but we especially want it to work well with Bzr.