Getting the word out about Bazaar 2.0 - ask your friends to try it!

[Anteru]

Hi,

FWIW, I'm a developer who is just evaluating alternatives for SVN, and I
tried Git, Bzr and Hg -- right now, it looks like I'll stick with Bzr.
Especially as I can work with an existing SVN repository very smoothly
from Bzr.

Some stuff you can put forward: bzr svn-import was _way_ faster than git
(git took me 1 day over Internet, bzr < 1 hour), commiting to SVN is
more comfortable from Bzr (better use of svn properties), so these alone
are compelling reasons for SVN users to try Bzr as their local client
(and eventually switch to Bzr.) The GUI tools and documentation are
great, much more consistent/polished than for instance git. I know quite
a few developers who are stuck with SVN on the server side for the near
future, so getting a DVCS running locally is the best they can hope for.

But the interesting part for you is why someone like me tried Bzr last:
The lack of high-profile projects and community pages was something
which made me think that Bzr is not ready yet. I got a small project
hosted on Gitorious, Qt is on git, huge projects (all of Sun, basically)
are using Mercurial, but for Bzr, the biggest one I could find is MySQL,
and few blog posts/community pages praising Bzr. Why is this important?
Because if you have really huge projects using SCM <X>, people get the
impression that <X> is going to be well supported in +5 years and scales
well. Of course, the projects where I evaluate it at the moment are
nowhere that large (the biggest one is ~ 2.5k revisions, 20k files or
so), but it's good to know yeah, this SCM scales well beyond everything
you'll need. Moreover, a bit community virtually guarantees that you
have plugins for Trac/Redmine/whatever.

Just to give you an idea why people choose Bzr actually ;)

Cheers,
  Anteru