Usage discussion from the GNU Emacs project.

[Karl Fogel]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
> he seems to be occupied with other tasks.  RMS, on the other hand, is
> pushing hard to set up some of the worst possible workflows as
> "recommended" in exchange for being able to keep the familiar and some
> simplicity in the initial "checkout" (or no-quotes checkout, since
> lightweight checkouts have caught his fancy!)

FWIW, I am confident that RMS's push to recommend bad workflows will go
nowhere, because:

  1) RMS is slowly coming to understand Bazaar, thanks to much
     handholding on the emacs-devel list.

  2) RMS is unlikely to edit our switchover document [1], because he
     just doesn't do that sort of thing.  Those who do edit it will, in
     practice, decide what workflows are recommended.

  3) Those of us on emacs-devel who *do* have Bazaar experience have
     made it very clear that we will go to the mat to keep the
     recommended workflows simple but reflective of real distributed
     version control practice (i.e., not just some CVS-in-drag recipe).
     I think the recipe we have [1] is good, and don't expect it to
     change significantly between now and when we switch.

Whatever problems we have with the switchover, that of recommending the
checkouts-formerly-known-as-lightweight will not be among them.

-Karl

[1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-en/BzrForEmacsDevs