Bazaar still below the radar when evaluating VCS tools

[Maritza Mendez]

This might be a good time to pose a question I've kept "private" for
months...When will someone write/publish a Bazaar book?  There are
already animal books for svn, git and hg.  The hg book prominently
acknowledges cvs, git and svn but makes no mention of bzr except as a
system to migrate *from*.  (darcs, monotone and arch receive similar
treatment)  Even better mousetraps need marketing.  I hope a book is
in the works, in part because it will help lend credibility to bzr in
the eyes of managers.  Say what you will about how the PHB makes
decisions.  But he is in charge.

~M

On 2/19/10, Ben Finney <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au> 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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