Re: Basic Bazaar guide for Emacs hackers.

[Karl Fogel]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:
> Óscar Fuentes writes:
>  > Karl's action has nothing to do here. Wasn't it clear on the quoted
>  > text? I was talking about you:
>
> Reread the thread.  Since you insisted on keeping your page, IIRC I've
> said nothing since about deleting that page, and in fact have added
> references to it from the main page on the assumption it was going to
> stay.  It was Karl who asked you to delete it more recently.
>
> True I supported his argument that having too many workflows can be
> confusing against your claim that it won't be, but that doesn't mean
> that I supported his request to delete the page.  Especially since RMS
> clearly wants to keep it, and even make it the recommended workflow --
> and if things go that way, there's no point in paying attention to me
> 'cause I'll be gone.

Heh.  I'll volunteer to have been inconsistent with something I
previously said, if it will stop this particular subthread :-).

Anyway, the thing that upsets people about too many choices is being
ill-equipped to deal with them.  So rather than delete workflow
documentation that some people (RMS, Glenn Morris, et al) find useful, I
think a strategy of being clear about

  - our recommended entry point (for those who need one), and
  - what each piece of documentation is for, and
  - how it relates to the others

is best.  That default entry point should be BzrForEmacsDevs, IMHO.

I think we're close to switching now; it depends on the pretest
schedule, which I'm not following.  I'll post separately about that.

-Karl