Feedback from evaluation in a corporate environment

[Algis Kabaila]

On Tuesday 12 January 2010 02:41:11 Paul Moore wrote:
> 2010/1/11 Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy at canonical.com>:
> > I've also made some initial steps inside Bazaar Explorer to simplify
> > things so that well-performing setups happen *by default*. For example:
> >
> > 1. The Initialize dialog is "model based" so that users say how they
> >   want to work (feature branches, shared tree, plain branch) and it
> >   builds the right layout on disk for you. The default model -
> >   feature branches - is an efficient one.
> >
> > 2. The branch dialog checks that the destination is inside a shared
> >   repository. If not, it suggests the user creates one and guides
> >   them through the process of doing so.
> >
> > If we want to do similar things on the cli level, it's not hard
> > technically, just socially (i.e. getting agreement!). :-)
>
> I have never used Bazaar Explorer (and don't expect to, I'm a
> command-line type) but it seems to me that your "models" don't match
> how I think of things.
>
> - Starting a new project
> - Putting an existing directory under version control
> - Grabbing a copy of project X (Python, Emacs, ...) to do some hacking
>
> There's no thought of "feature branches", "shared tree", or "plain
> branch" in that. And I'm not sure that expecting me to read up on
> workflow descriptions so that I can understand my choices is really
> sensible.
>
> Remember - Subversion users just do "svn co http://,,,,, xxx" and go.
> (Setting up a new repository, or putting a directory under VC, is more
> of a pain, but that's CVCS for you :-)). Mercurial users just do "hg
> clone http://.... xxx" or "hg init; hg add *" and go. (I'm not sure
> about git). That's the level of simplicity you're competing with.
+1
>
> And I know that I can use commands that are just as simple in Bazaar.
> The problem is that if I do, I hit issues down the line and get told
> "well, you shouldn't have done that".
>
> Sometimes more choices is simply bad.
>
> Paul.

Too many choices is always a bad option!

OldAl.

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Algis Kabaila, MEngSc, PhD(Eng)
http://akabaila.pcug.org.au/StructuralAnalysis.pdf