[Vm-dev] A Git-based VM sources repositories for you

[Geoffroy Couprie]

Hello,

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 15 December 2010 03:35, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:23:25PM +0100, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello, community
>>>
>>> (preface) there was a discussion about using git for VM sources and
>>> recently in pharo team, we are also discussed that, and decided to go
>>> on.
>>> So i started to look for an options and found that Gitorious is best
>>> solution for us all.
>>> In contrast to github, it doesn't charging users when their repository
>>> grow beyond 300Mb in size.
>>> And its totally free for open-source projects.
>>
>> Igor,
>>
>> Thanks for your initiative, and I expect a lively discussion moving forward ;)
>>
>> To the community at large,
>>
>> We have a wonderful mix of people participating in Squeak/Etoys/Phoro/Cuis
>> and other projects, some of whom have be participating for many years, as well
>> as many newer contributors. Regardless of how the VM(s) are managed in the
>> future, I would ask that everyone with an interest in this please be respectful
>> of the people who created the original work for our benefit. In particular,
>> Andreas, Ian, John, and Eliot have contributed major VM development that
>> they have made available to us with open source licenses, and Dan Ingalls'
>> original portable VM is a remarkable piece of work from which we all are
>> benefiting every day.
>>
>> So the meta-comment is: Let's all be respectful of the wishes of the original
>> authors of these works.
>>
>
> I am always acting with best intents for all of us. If creating a
> separate code repository
> goes against somebody's wishes, please speak.
> I didn't want to cause any harm.
> My intent is to make VM development process more open and flexible.
>

Thank you for taking care of this. Let's hope it will motivate more
developers to study the code, learn about the VM and contribute tot
his wonderful project!