new Bazaar homepage URL

[Ben Finney]

Russel Winder <russel.winder at concertant.com> writes:

> Martin,
>
> On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 16:33 +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
> > I propose that we move the Bazaar site to bazaar.canonical.com.
> > After the 2.0.0 milestone, Canonical wants to more clearly show its
> > support for Bazaar, while still recognizing that Bazaar is more than
> > just Canonical and has its own community.

I can't see how moving the project to a Canonical domain is “recognizing
that Bazaar is more than just Canonical and has its own community.”
Quite the opposite, in fact.

Canonical can “clearly show its support for Bazaar” by being a named
sponsor for the project, surely?

> I appreciate that this is likely a fait accompli, but there is a
> downside. A URL like http://bazaar.canonical.com clearly makes Bazaar
> a Canonical product rather than a FOSS project.
> http://www.bazaar-vcs.org may be awkward in many ways but it is vendor
> neutral.

[…]
> Whilst I understand Canonical wishing to expose and market its support
> for this GNU project, some people may well react badly to this change.

Agreed. One of the more consistent reasons I see cited for choosing
Mercurial over Bazaar is the perception that Bazaar is excessively tied
to Canonical. This change of URL will only exacerbate that perception.

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Ben Finney
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