How crew started (was: Working without patchbomb)

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Wed Jun 22 14:56:01 CDT 2011


On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 17:48 +0200, Thomas Arendsen Hein wrote: 
> * Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> [20110621 19:20]:
> > Historical note: the crew repo was created on the initiative of the
> > crew, not at my prompting. The crew itself was originally self-appointed
> > too. I think I may have even been on vacation.
> 
> I launched it, because you asked on IRC if I could be the patch
> monkey during your vacation and I suggested that Bryan should help
> with this, too, and you agreed.
> 
> The historic announcement was sent shortly after this:
> http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2005-August/003836.html
> 
> It evolved to something more than that quickly, which was not
> appointed by you, but that's another story.
> 
> > But a bunch of people
> > (some of them current members of crew) seem to be laboring under the
> > misconception that "crew" is my idea of the Right Way To Do Things. It's
> > not - it's simply an organically formed structure that continues to be
> > convenient.
> 
> It is certainly not a Wrong Way To Do Things (for the certain way
> Mercurial is developed), so the conception does not sound totally
> wrong.

Indeed. My point is that the crew repo is not a dictate. If people want
to do things differently, there's nothing stopping them.

-- 
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.





More information about the Mercurial-devel mailing list