[ANNOUNCE] Cogito is for sale

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 06:07:55PM CEST, Linus Torvalds wrote:

And at this stage, I actually rather agree.

I've been torn apart about this for few weeks now, struggling to get some time (and strong motivation) to dive through the dusty cogito patchqueues etc., and wondering what to actually *do* about Cogito. I have been actually inclined to, hmm, "phase out" Cogito for some time already, but then always some very nice mail from a Cogito user comes and throws me in doubts. But this thread pushed me over the edge. ;-)

I agree that by now, the situation is too confusing and while I'm not happy with everything in Git, I believe that by now the best way is to just fix Git. Therefore, I'm announcing that I don't plan to add any (at least any significant) new features to Cogito. Sorry to all the Cogito users, it is a hard decision for me, but by now I believe that it is much more effective to just focus on Git.

If anyone else wants to take over Cogito maintainership, you're most welcome: let me know, please! The "patch queue" means just filtering =git mailbox, but I have some WIP code to add the .git/config "remotes" support to Cogito, if you are interested.

Until someone else steps out to maintain Cogito, I'm not going to abandon Cogito absolutely. I still plan to dive through the patch queue as soon as possible and then continue integrating bugfixes and/or smaller-scale changes necessary for newer Git versions. I'll maybe also write a trivial more-or-less 1:1 cg->git porcelain wrapper for those who trained their fingers to 'cg' instead of 'git'; but maybe it's best just to retrain. ;-)

About git homepage:

The very least I wanted to do at any rate with git.or.cz ASAP is to switch the crash courses to git-oriented ones too. I think git more or less got to a reasonable point when this is a sane idea. Do you have any tips on exactly what zero-level introductory material I should put there instead of the Cogito crash courses, or should we write new ones (perhaps based on the current ones)? I probably won't have much time to write a lot of stuff, but I'll gladly use whatever reasonable anyone suggests/writes, and I have no qualms to just give well-known people push access to the homepage repository.

Live and prosper,