merge vs pull

[Kevin Smith]

Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Absolutely. I think it's also useful to look at how people are likely to use 
> bzr. In terms of merge/pull there's ~three classes of users:
> 
>  * Serious developers who branch, hack, merge, hack, remerge, branch, pull,
>    push, tag, etc.
>  * Budding/lazy developers, who track mainline and every now and then do some
>    hacking.
>  * Keen users who just want to track mainline.

There are a couple groups that don't seem to fit into these categories. 
I'm a bit sensitive to them, since they describe most of my work:

* Small project maintainer, who receives occasional contributions, and 
mostly just branches him/herself for feature development.

* Small group of developers who "share" the mainline almost as if it 
were centralized (very little divergence).

I'm not sure that either of them really makes the problem space any more 
complex, but I wanted to submit them for consideration, just in case. 
Not all projects are like the Linux kernel.

Kevin