new Bazaar homepage URL

[Matt Doran]

Russel Winder wrote:
> 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 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.
>
> It is undeniably true the most of the committing team are Canonical
> staff, and without Canonical's support the project would likely have
> stalled long ago.  There is however a difference between explicitly
> stated support (and marketing) and apparent ownership.  Canonical are
> the official copyright holder and so in all ways actually do own the
> product.  But there is a subtlety to the current status quo where the
> project is a GNU project and has a vendor neutral domain from which it
> operates.
>
> Whilst I understand Canonical wishing to expose and market its support
> for this GNU project, some people may well react badly to this change.
>
> If the project had always had bazaar.canonical.com, I doubt anyone would
> worry because Bazaar is a FOSS project and anyone can contribute and
> use.  It is the change, not the fact that worries me a little. 
>
>   
I don't think the change would bother most .... unfortunately perception 
isn't always logical.  :(

Ian's mail about getting the word out about bzr 2.0, talks about the 
bzr/canonical myth ... I can only think that this would strengthen that 
myth.

-- Matt
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