question on difference between bazaar and subversion

[Jordan Mantha]

> 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 think so, but again, we probably won't know until we try it.

> 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"

I agree, but for me at least, I know as much, if not more, about bzr
than I do about svn. It might take some effort to convert things over
to bzr but once done I don't see it as a problem. We would just need
to figure out the workflow. There is something to "Everyone else uses
it, it must be cool" though. If people who I know and trust recommend
something, I'm inclined to listen to them. Most of the experienced
MOTUs (ajmitch, siretart, \sh, and others) are using bzr for a lot of
their work. And it isn't just because it is the thing to do. That
said, their applications of bzr are a bit different from ours and we
need to not do things haphazardly. I use both bzr and svn. I like them
both and I think we just need to test out our options and see what
works best for us.

-Jordan

P.S. I'm really not a bzr evangelist, honest :-)