How can we ensure Bazaar (bzr) remains active?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 00:51:08 +0000
> From: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at jelmer.uk>
> Cc: Torsten Bronger <bronger at physik.rwth-aachen.de>,
> 	bazaar at lists.canonical.com
> 
> bzr-git is slow because it has to do format conversion - it can't
> simply copy the pack file like "plain" Dulwich and C Git can. bzr-git
> fetches from a Git format repository into a Bazaar format repository.
> 
> This means that when bzr-git fetches it has to recreate every Git
> fulltext by applying the Git delta chain to create that fulltext, and
> then insert it into the Bazaar repository (which involves generating
> a pack filled with deltas in Bazaar's format).

My reading of this is that having a bzr-like UI that uses bzr-git as
back-end is a non-starter to begin with.