Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: details, details

[James Blackwell]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 11:59:36AM -0700, Thomas Lord wrote:
> > Man, check the mailing list before writing your FUD.  As I stated and
> > documented yesterday, baz and bazaar-NG were developed in parallel for
> > some time before it was decided that bazaar-NG would succeed baz. 
> > That decision was made this summer.
> 
> 
> Yes, but when was the decision effectively determined.  That's 
> different from when it became canon.  I think if you go back
> and look at, for example, rhetoric about the baz and baz-ng
> mission you'll find that the decision was pretty much determined
> well before this summer.

Prior to this summer there was a sincere hope by some at the company that
the currently-named bazaar-ng (which some day will become Bazaar 2.0)
would be a nice idea testing-place for revision control ideas. If an idea 
worked out well in the python prototype, then the idea would get migrated
back to the "written in a real language" Bazaar.

Things turned out a bit differently. The mindshare for bazaar grew quickly
and already has more unique people comitting code than existed for Bazaar 
over its entire history. In the last month alone, I've seen accepted patch
submissiosn from over a dozen unique people.



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