RFC: Bazaar Web site Home Page Redesign

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Ben Finney writes:
 > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
 > 
 > > You absolutely :-) need an exit ramp for "Launchpad", large enough
 > > to make it clear that use of one is really enhanced by the other.
 > 
 > I would recommend against doing this, actually. There is much negative
 > feeling (among those I talk VCSen with) around the perception that
 > Bazaar is somehow tied to use of Launchpad, whereas Mercurial and Git
 > are less restrictive because they have no such ties.

Interesting.  I've *never* heard that.  "Bazaar! Slow! Complex UI!
Format churn! Idiosyncratic!" are the canards I hear a lot.  But then
the people I talk VCS to are ex-Archers, Emacs maintainers, ESR, Tom
Lord, and PEP 374 authors.  Ie, people who understand that the "d" in
"dVCS" means never being roped into a hosting service.

 > Adding such a thing prominently on the website would reinforce this
 > "Bazaar! Launchpad! Canonical! All the same thing, innit!" that turns a
 > lot of people away from Bazaar-the-VCS.
 > 
 > I think it's plenty that "Bazaar hosting" as a search term will return
 > Launchpad as the first hit.

Tough question.  I know a few people who swallow the git UI *only*
because they're addicted to github, and quite a few github addicts who
don't have any trouble with git per se but are really happy with
github.  Easy Launchpad integration is a *feature* for Bazaar, at least
to a certain class of users.  (And even you would probably change your
mind if Launchpad would accept OpenID as a relying party.<0.5 wink>)

Maybe demote it from a box of its own to one of many Feature/Extensions
(which would need to be ressurrected in my wireframe, I guess)?