Bazaar Presentation.

[Ben Finney]

Eric Berry <elberry at gmail.com> writes:

> In a couple of weeks I will be giving this presentation to one of our
> teams at work. I'd love to get some feedback from you on my slides and
> presenter's notes before I get in front of people. :)

Thanks for putting it together, and offering it for review.

> https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AaZ5EKml_bzRZGdoZGhydGZfNjVuNjh3aDRjNQ&hl=en
>
> Any criticisms, concerns, or advice are all welcomed.

I find it's best to avoid “SCM”, since to many people it means the
related term “Software Configuration Management”, which is very
different from a VCS but confusingly similar also.

Best to use the common term VCS (Version Control System) which is pretty
unambiguous.

Why is Mercurial excluded from your list of candidates? You can expect
that question if anyone has been aware of what VCS others have been
talking about.

In the “Idea to project” slide, an important distinction between Git and
Bazaar in remote setup is that Bazaar remote repositories can be stored
and published via existing standard protocols (HTTP, SFTP) without
anything specific running on the remote end. I think that Git requires
at least Git running on the remote end.

The count of commands is rather misleading. Those “60+ commands” are not
necessary commands from Bazaar core, but from numerous extensions you
may have installed. The set of core commands is listed by ‘bzr help’,
some 13 commands.

Thus, you might want to make the point about a rich collection of
optional extensions, rather than giving the impression that all this
stuff is necessary to use Bazaar from the start.

Thanks again, I hope that helps.

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Ben Finney