Getting the word out about Bazaar 2.0 - ask your friends to try it!

[Anteru]

> I'm guessing you started your evaluation before we rolled out our new
> web site? Hopefully we're communicating those advantages better than we
> have in the past?
No that I know, I started evaluating bzr 1 week ago, after trying git.
For evaluating, I mainly researched various comparisons between SCM,
blog posts etc. -- just as I did for git and hg. I used the web page
just to check that all the required features are in Bzr, and the docs to
see how to convert from SVN etc.

> We firmly believe Bazaar 2.0 is seriously competitive though. In
> addition to the strengths you identified, our rename handling and
> efficiency (see http://bazaar-vcs.org/Benchmarks) are worth noting IMO.
Yes, but you should look at something like:
http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/#bzr, as this can easily scare newbies
away. The Benchmarks you linked tell me something about the disk space
used, but I'd like to see bars and charts showing me similar to the page
I linked. You might also want to compare to SVN/Perforce/TFS, as there
are still people out there using that ;)

> Given Canonical pay my salary, I certainly hope it's still around in 5
> years. Ubuntu is going from strength to strength so that's a positive
> sign that we're here to stay.
Don't get me wrong, I actually like the fact that a company is giving a
steering direction as it means that unpopular features (i.e. tedious to
write) like SVN interop are done, and that docs get written, something
which you can only do if you have payed full-time employees. On the
other hand, I also have the impression that Bzr is highly dependent on
Canonical, which is not a good thing. Again, that's just an impression
-- I didn't do further research here.

Note: Where do I give feedback on the docs? Something like the MSDN
"Give feedback here" link on each page would be helpful.

Cheers,
  Anteru