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The combination of > (2) thinking about the future and sustainability of the project, including its funding. and the rewrite apparently not happening in the o
by rstarast 7y ago
The combination of
> (2) thinking about the future and sustainability of the project, including its funding.
and the rewrite apparently not happening in the open casts some doubt as to whether the project will remain fully open source.
- Freak_NL 7y ago> […] the rewrite apparently not happening in the open […] That's a major red flag for a FOSS DVCS that aims to exist as a valid alternative for existing tools like git. Fine for a hobby project, portfolio project, or experiment of course.
- pmeunier 7y ago> the rewrite apparently not happening in the open I'm the author of the rewrite. It will almost certainly be open source when it's done, but it is not open right now, because: - the license of the current version has not been properly observed by other projects in the past. - this project keeps getting bashed for "corrupting repositories" and "changing formats constantly", even though it is announced as experimental everywhere (also, some corruption claims have been wrong in the past, and we have released converters every time the formats have changed). Therefore, allowing people to test the new version as it is being debugged would probably not improve this situation.
- rstarast 7y agoThank you, that's good to hear! Your arguments are valid.