Bash 5.0 released

Posted Jan 20, 2019 20:41 UTC (Sun) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Bash 5.0 released by pizza
Parent article: Bash 5.0 released

Two things that can simultaneously be true:

1) Chet's work is a great gift to the free software community and we have benefited hugely from it over decades

2) Over that time we've learned that there are ways to maintain software that make it easier for others to consume that work, contribute code back and identify and fix issues. Now that we're aware that there are better ways to do it, we're also aware of the additional costs imposed on consumers by not having a fine grained revision history. Overall people still seem to feel that the benefits provided by bash outweigh the drawbacks, but if it /were/ possible to convince Chet to change the way bash is maintained, life would still be better.

Bash 5.0 released

Posted Jan 20, 2019 22:30 UTC (Sun) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> but if it /were/ possible to convince Chet to change the way bash is maintained, life would still be better.

No argument from me there!

...but whether or not it is possible to convince him to change his ways, denigrating him and his work is not the way to accomplish it.

Bash 5.0 released

Posted Jan 21, 2019 2:29 UTC (Mon) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link] (1 responses)

Has anyone talked to Chet about changing to a more fine grained revision history before?

Bash 5.0 released

Posted Jan 21, 2019 6:32 UTC (Mon) by dualbus (guest, #129437) [Link]

The initial git migration was discussed here: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2011-11/msg...

And the only time I'm aware of it being brought up as a specific discussion topic is here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2015-03/msg00... (spoiler alert: I gave up really quickly on maintaining that mirror)