question on difference between bazaar and subversion

[Jonathan Jesse]

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> = New contributors =
>
> Is bzr going to facilitate contribution, or the reverse? Specifically:
>
> 1. Is bzr easier to learn than svn for newcomers?
> 2. Does bzr impose more or fewer requirements on newcomers (in
> particular, do they need to run a service like sshd or httpd)
>
> = Our workload =
>
> Is bzr going to facilitate our workload? Specifically:
>
> 1. Can we push easily and immediately to a central server (bearing in
> mind that lots of people frequently contribute small things)
> 2. Does it make reviewing other people's contributions easier or more
> difficult?
> 3. Does it merge docbook xml nicely?
> 4. Is a decentralised version control system going to suit our workload,
> bearing in mind what I said above about the large number-volunteer based
> contributor-base?
>
> This last question is what troubles me the most. If I'm right and our
> workload essentially requires a _centralised_ system, even if bzr can
> support that, what actually is the point in moving? Launchpad
> integration may be one reason, I suppose. But we definitely need
> concrete reasons (apart from "oh, everyone in Ubuntu uses it, it must be
> cool!"), IMO.
>
> Matt

A couple of points here, we argue long and hard about how hard it is to write 
in DocBook and use subversion but we want to move to a new system that hardly 
anyone knows how to use?

svn checkout, svn commit and svn diff are easy to use, is bzr just as easy to 
use?  If I want to commit one typo change can i do it as easy in bzr as in 
svn?

I see a lot of "I don't know exactly what it does, but..." coming across IRC 
and the list and I fear we are changing because of the last line in Matt's 
email "Everyone else uses it, it must be cool"

Jonathan