The RPM.org site is using Mercurial

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

* John Villalovos <sodarock at gmail.com> [20061215 19:50]:
> http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/15/040258
> 
> And someone posted this:
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> Now I'm all for innovation, when appropriate - but if you want people
> to pitch into a new project why pick a fringe VCS? Why not pick
> something standard that everyone will have like subversion? mercurial
> didn't even make it into base Fedora.
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> 
> Not sure if anyone is good at making a good reasonable response to why
> a project should use Mercurial over Subversion for development.

Do you think commenting on Slashdot is worth the trouble?

Citing from the first very few postings:

"You Have It All Wrong"
(Score:5, Insightful)

"I fail to see why your lack of understanding about how rpm works
means that rpm should not be made better."
(Score:4, Interesting)

followed by postings suggesting "rm" and related stuff.

"I've been reading /. for years now, but seldom did I see so many
clueless posts and half-baked flame-baits packed in a single page.
Just for the record. (For all the clue-less posters out there.)"

...


But we have support, Theodore Ts'o (tytso) already commented:
"Mercurial is hardly a fringe VCS. Some of the projects using
Mercurial include Xen, ALSA, e2fsprogs, and OpenSolaris."

Thomas

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