Most of them, [Sons] said, "are older than my father.... [and] are not always up to date on the latest techniques and security issues." [...] Sons suggested that they "should be retired."
That is incredibly asinine and discriminatory to boot.
From the NTPsec project manager's comment:
The main point of contention that caused the fork was BitKeeper vs Git.
I can't believe that arguing over VC tooling is what caused the fork. Why not just compromise on this, use BitKeeper for long enough to get on the maintainer's good side, and helpfully offer to convert to Git later? This is how ESR got GNU Emacs development migrated from Bazaar to Git, and it seemed to have gone pretty well for all involved.
Most of them, [Sons] said, "are older than my father.... [and] are not always up to date on the latest techniques and security issues." [...] Sons suggested that they "should be retired."
That is incredibly asinine and discriminatory to boot.
From the NTPsec project manager's comment:
The main point of contention that caused the fork was BitKeeper vs Git.
I can't believe that arguing over VC tooling is what caused the fork. Why not just compromise on this, use BitKeeper for long enough to get on the maintainer's good side, and helpfully offer to convert to Git later? This is how ESR got GNU Emacs development migrated from Bazaar to Git, and it seemed to have gone pretty well for all involved.