Moving to bzr (was: Centralized Storage, round 2)

[Aaron Bentley]

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Benno wrote:
> Getting a team of developers to switch to a new model and new set of
> options is not terribly enticing. 
...
> 
> It is going to be bad enough staging a transformation of the backend from
> one format to another, and getting everyone to change clients at the same time,
> but also having to get everyone to switch development model, and interface
> is going to make a switch very difficult.

> ...I guess I need to start
> getting the hands dirty again now that baz is deprecated.

Baz is still being actively maintained, and will be for a while yet.
You don't have to switch if it's working well for you.  Even when
Canonical stops funding baz, it's quite possible that someone from the
community will step up to the plate and take over.

Robert is currently working on dogfooding-- getting bzr to a state in
which Canonical is able to switch to it.  Conveniently enough, the
changes he's making will also make it possible for my company,
Panometrics, to switch, and our model is more like what you're describing.

So you may wish to sit back and let others be the ginuea pigs, so that
most of the issues have been solved by the time you switch.

I hope that when and if you transition to bzr, it will be because bzr
offers compelling advantages to you, not from a sense that you've been
forced to switch.

Aaron
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