Plans, please, not excuses [was: Primer ... ?]

[Ian Clatworthy]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Ian Clatworthy writes:
> 
>  > 1. Bazaar started later than and hence behind the other tools.
> 
> That's very arguable.  Not only was the Bazaar-NG project announced
> about 3 months before Linus and Matt Mackay started work basically
> simultaneously, as Aaron points out, but the crew that defected from
> Arch to Bazaar certainly had one heck of a lot more background in the
> philosophy and practice of revision control than Linus.  (I don't know
> about Mackay.)  They also took with them proven algorithms and
> software, plus a lot of solid thinking about UI, workflow, and best
> practices, while Linus invented his as he went along (at least that's

I genuinely thought that Bazaar-NG started after Mercurial & Git. Thanks
to Aaron for correcting me quickly and my apologies to everyone for the
misinformation.

Ian C.