Bzr development stopped

[Mark A. Flacy]

Linus spent a huge amount of time on his version control system after the one he was using was pulled out from under his feet.

I should think that anyone who has bzr pulled out from under them will do something similar.


"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

>David Ingamells writes:
> > On 03/09/12 13:56, Ben Finney wrote:
>
>[sic]
>
>Ben didn't deserve that.
>
>> > I don't think you will, though. Bazaar, while it is the preferred
>VCS
>> > >of some highly skilled hackers, is basically a product aimed at
>people
>> > >who either can't or won't put thought into their VCS. They'd
>rather
> > > >switch than hack
>> As a [long term] user of bzr I resent your suggestion that I'm either
>
> > lazy or stupid.
>
>Well, that wasn't the suggestion, especially not in context (which you
>cut).  The suggestion was that people who chose Bazaar because it
>already does what they want without them or their colleagues spending
>time thinking about it have made a deliberate, informed choice, based
>on its vaunted adaptation to their workflow and deliberate
>discouragement of "dangerous" operations like "rebase" -- ie, reduced
>need to think about the tool.  This implies that "fixing" the
>contributor agreement is unlikely to unlock vast amounts of time and
>effort from them.
>
>Many of those who chose git also made a deliberate, informed choice,
>knowing that use of git requires both an investment in learning about
>the tool and, often, day-to-day thought about workflow.  My suggestion
>is that such people are on average more likely to contribute to git
>than the average bzr user is to contribute to Bazaar.  Canonical's
>self-serving contributor agreement is mostly irrelevant.  (Aside from
>Ben, I've received only one reply to my request for testimony about
>the inhibiting effect of the Canonical contributor agreement.  I guess
>that I may as well summarize now. ;-)
>
> > I, like many others, I guess, would love to have the time and
> > freedom to contribute to all those projects, but I have a wife and
> > kids to house and feed.
>
>That's just your preferred way of phrasing what I wrote.  In fact,
>even Linus has a wife and kids.  But he spent a huge amount of time
>think about and contributing to his VCS, no?  He could have just used
>Subversion (or Arch!)
>
>Steve

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