Why Bazaar is not used in many project hosting sites?

[Canol Gokel]

Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Oh, and one reason for the something pile:  It seems like the demand for
> bzr repositories isn't as high 
> 
> fedorahosted:
> 
> git -- 265
> svn -- 76
> hg -- 35
> bzr -- 5
> mtn -- 1
> 

I didn't know about fedorahosted, thanks. The percentages might be partly
because on "New Project" page it says like this:

...

Use the following template for the full description bla bla bla

...

SCM choice (git/hg/svn): <= Noticed that there is no bzr?

...

Though it mentions about bzr support on "About" page.


> OTOH, the same might be true of open source in general where there are a
> lot of project hosting sites that offer svn (and now git) and fewer that
> offer bazaar....
> 

Yes, I also think that how many project hosting sites are supporting Bazaar and
how many of them are supporting Git or Mercurial is certainly a factor when
choosing a VCS.