Introduction to Ubuntu Distributed Development

[Patrick Goetz]

> Subject: Introduction to Ubuntu Distributed Development
> From: James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net>
> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:40:34 +0000
> To: ubuntu-devel <ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
> The TL;DR version:
> 
>   1) Version Control rocks.
>   2) Distributed version control rocks even more.
>   3) Bazaar rocks particularly well.
>   4) Let's use Bazaar for Ubuntu.
> 

There's no question that distributed version control rocks, but I'm 
wondering what drove the decision to develop/maintain bazaar?  We've 
been using Mercurial to good effect (http://mercurial.selenic.com/) -- 
awesome, easy to use GPL product with superb graphical change tracking 
features, and there's always git for the purest of the pure.

Given the chronic shortage of developers to work on various things, it 
seems imprudent to devote resources to re-inventing the wheel...