bazaar/mercurial meeting

[Aaron Bentley]

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Martin Pool wrote:
| Canonical (the corporate parent of bzr and Ubuntu) is hosting a sprint in
| London in early June to bring together some of the core developers
from bzr
| and hg, to see if we can better cooperate.  Aaron, John, Robert and I are
| going, and (I think) Bryan O'Sullivan, Matt Mackall, Benoit Boissinot, and
| Thomas Arendsen Hein from hg.

I'm definitely intrigued by this.  Bzr and Hg are definitely the most
similar projects out there: just look at our own feature chart:
http://bazaar-vcs.org/RcsComparisons

Any kind of merger would be challenging, but there would definitely be
advantages:
~ - More contributors
~ - More code
~ - The merged project becomes a more obvious choice than either Hg or bzr.

But when we talk about a "merged project", we mean:
~ - Merged leadership
~ - Merged communities
~ - Merged coding cultures
~ - Merged codebases
~ - Merged infrastructure

This is a somewhat fearsome list, and I feel the only way it can work is
with a positive attitude.  So the question I'll be asking is not "Can we
make this work?", but "How can we make this work?".  And if the answer
is "there's no way to make this work", that's okay.

A merger would involve compromise, but I wouldn't want bzr to lose
anything important in a merger.

Aaron
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