Usage discussion from the GNU Emacs project.

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Mon Nov 30 02:11:58 GMT 2009


Karl Fogel writes:

 > (Stephen, in [1] you seemed to imply that if developers posted branches
 > to Launchpad, that might not look good for Bazaar.  I don't see why; it
 > might not look good for Savannah, but it shouldn't matter for Bazaar.)

[That's what you get for inviting an economist to the party: oracular
obscurity.]

The logic is that having branches posted anywhere but Savannah
reinforces the misunderstanding that the smart server is hard to
install and/or maintain.  Ie, if Emacs developers using Bazaar are
publishing git repos and Bazaar branches on Launchpad, it must be
because Savannah is unable to set up Bazaar properly.  That implies
that Bazaar is a complicating factor in your workflow.

To the extent that the worries of some that Bazaar is "too tied" (for
some reason, which I'm not going to try to justify) to Canonical
and/or Launchpad are valid, this would tend to increase that
impression, too.



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