Bazaar still below the radar when evaluating VCS tools

[Russel Winder]

Ben,

I emailed him when I found an earlier draft of this, which was actually
more damning of Bazaar than the final document.  He amended the final
document so as not to offer an implied value judgement.  I understand
his position, it stems from ThoughtWorks and himself being involved only
in activities that use Subversion, Git and Mercurial.  They appear to
have little or no overlap with organizations using Bazaar.

The method of response has to be to use the media to show that actually
his position is insular and he should discover that there is a very
significant body of Bazaar use.  What is needed is for people like Ian
who have real data, to visit Fowler's site and add comments to his paper
to show that Bazaar actually is a player in the game even though from
his personal experience only Git and Mercurial are. 

On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 15:58 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Howdy all,
> 
> Martin Fowler (of ThoughtWorks and much software-engineering wisdom) has
> posted an article on the “recommendability” of VCS tools:
> 
>     In our recent ThoughtWorks technology radar, we called out two items
>     as version control tools that enterprises should be assessing for
>     use: Subversion and Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS). Here
>     I want to expand on that, summarizing many discussions we've had
>     internally about version control tools.
>     […]
> 
>     Fundamentally there's three version control systems that get broad
>     approval: subversion (svn), git, and mercurial (hg).
> 
>     […]
>     Speaking of DVCSs, there are more than just the two I've highlighted
>     here. Bazaar, in particular, is one I occasionally hear good things
>     about, but again I hear about it much less often then git or Mercurial.
> 
>     <URL:http://martinfowler.com/bliki/VersionControlTools.html>
> 
> Martin Fowler's voice carries a lot of weight in many quarters; it seems
> Bazaar escaped evaluation only because he doesn't hear about it enough.
> Could someone rectify that for him?
> 


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