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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/09/2015 10:00 pm,
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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 16:27:54 +0200
From: Daniel Vedder <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:d.vedder@web.de"><d.vedder@web.de></a>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bazaar@lists.canonical.com">bazaar@lists.canonical.com</a>
Subject: Re: How can we ensure Bazaar (bzr) remains active?
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I would like to emphasize the quality of the Bazaar code base - when I
tried to get a grasp of how things worked, I was amazed by how
well-written the code was, and how much documentation (both for users
and developers) was available. I think Bazaar is a very well-engineered
product, which makes its decline even sadder.</pre>
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<font color="#663300">Sad indeed.</font><br>
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<pre wrap="">I don't think that the battle is completely lost, if the Bazaar
development team were to be reinvigorated and enlarged I think it might
gain in popularity again, playing on its strength of being easier to use
than git.</pre>
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<font color="#663300">I'm reinvigorated to switch back to Bazaar --
if it has a future !!</font><br>
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<pre wrap="">Another big problem we'd still be likely to face though is the dominance
of Github vs. Launchpad. While Launchpad is definitely functional, it is
by no means as snazzy as Github, and, what's more important, not as
well-known or popular. Everybody tells you to have a good Github profile
in your CV, I've never heard anybody say that about Launchpad. Apart
from the Ubuntu (and derivatives) world, most people seem to be putting
their open source projects on Github. And Github happens to be using
git, not bzr.
P.S. Nice to see some activity on the mailing list again :-) It had
become somewhat quiet here...
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<font color="#663300">That is why I suggested getting some kind of
acceptance from BitBucket and possibly SourceTree.<br>
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BitBucket already handles Git <u>and</u> Mercurial, so adding
another DVCS would probably be less difficult as the architecture
supports multiple (2) DVCSes already. Same with SourceTree. What
would Atlassian get out of it? I'd argue that they could get a
better DVCS, be a one stop shop for the 3 most popular DVCS
systems, and attract more users to BitBucket, which could attract
more users to their professional paid for products (Jira, etc).
The sell to Atlassian would (probably) have to be that some core
Bazaar developers would do a lot of the work, if that's the way
they roll? Doesn't hurt to ask.<br>
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I like BitBucket because is has <u>free private repositories</u>,
supports Git and Mercurial, has issue tracking, etc. I really
wish it had Bazaar support !!<br>
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