Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: MtnSummit 2008

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 10:22:03PM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> Thomas Keller wrote:
> > Stand up, speak up!
> 
> Zurich vs Wuppertal: shall we need to toss the proverbial coin? ;-)
> 
> Both seem interesting and have their pros, and no one seems like really
> standing up for one or the other... but this way time flies and we risk
> more and more likely to choose neither, which would be a real pity ;-)

Well, OK.  One difference is that Siggi has apparently gone ahead and
down a huge pile of work for Wuppertal:
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.monotone.devel/13143
and no-on has done squat for Zurich (AFAICT, I might well have missed
something).

I guess it's true that no-one is standing up and saying "this is
what's happening", which is usually the only way to get this kind of
crowd all moving in the same direction.  I can see how Siggi would be
uncomfortable with just dictating to the list like that, though.

I dunno, would it help if I just made some dictatorial pronouncement?
"Hereby let it be known that as far as I can tell, Wuppertal is
kicking Zurich's butt this time around, so if we want this to happen
we should all line up to make it happen in Wuppertal, or come up with
some good reason why not".  (I guess dictatorial pronouncements
traditionally do more than just make factual observations about the
world, but hey, if it works...)

-- Nathaniel

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