Bazaar Presentation.

[John Szakmeister]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Eric Berry <elberry at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>      I've been trying to get some folks at work to look at Bazaar, and I was
> asked to put together a presentation.
>
> 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. :)
>
> https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AaZ5EKml_bzRZGdoZGhydGZfNjVuNjh3aDRjNQ&hl=en
>
> Any criticisms, concerns, or advice are all welcomed.

One thing I found interesting was the migration story.  Bazaar has one
too, and it's probably not quite as easy as implied.  I haven't done
much on this front, so my apologies if I get it wrong.  If I
understand things correctly, you'll need to make sure you install your
hook plugins on the new server, otherwise you won't get your emails,
or whatever.  Also, Bazaar has gone through a number of formats (sorry
to bring up the past!), and there have been issues.  Failures trying
to do it remotely, or it taking a long time to perform the upgrade.  I
think Git has been the only one who hasn't changed their model in a
breaking way.  Also, downstream folks will need to update references
to their branch locations at some point if they want to receive new
updates, or push changes back.  So while you don't have to relocate
your working copy immediately, you still need to effectively do the
same down the road.

BTW, Git has a ton of commands.  It's one of the big barriers to
entry, IMHO.  OTOH, it can do some amazing things.  And hg is a pretty
compelling alternative too.  It's been fast from the beginning, and I
think it's further along when it comes to 3rd party tool support.  But
if you need to work against Subversion, you really can't beat
bzr-svn's integration.  And Bazaar's command line bears a lot of
resemblance to Subversion's, which makes that transition much easier.

HTH!  And, it's inspiring me to get a presentation done... we want to
roll out Bazaar at our place as well.

-John