How crew started (was: Working without patchbomb)

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

* 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. But the name is "crew" for a reason: In the end the captain
decides the heading of the ship.

Regards,
Thomas

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