Re: Should we discuss Windows-related changes on git@vger.kernel.org?

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jul 11, 2008, 19:04 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807111159560.2936@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807111930160.8950@racer>

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> 
> Which very much includes brushing up the patches in 4msysgit, which are 
> invariably of lower quality than git.git's, because we lack a brilliant 
> maintainer like Junio.

Umm. The other side of the coin is:

 - a lot of people with good taste won't _be_ on the windows lists, 
   because there is likely a high correlation with "good taste in 
   development" and "try to avoid using windows"

 - a lot of Junio's maintenance is likely helped by the fact that (a) he 
   sees the features being discussed and the reason for them and (b) the 
   patches have in general seen comments from other people.

 - It may well be good to explain to the _real_ git people (eg me) what 
   the problems in Windows land are, so that we get a first-hand view into 
   hell, and can maybe take it into account when we make changes for other 
   things.

IOW, I think that since 1.6.0 is supposed to have native support for windows, we should have patches discussed on the regular git list. The ghetto that is windows can be useful for _user_ discussions, where a lot of the core git people simply cannot help. But having development discussions there is bad, I think.

		Linus