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Re: Bzr development stopped WAS Re: Branching from just a part of a repository?

From:  Stefan Monnier <monnier-AT-iro.umontreal.ca>
To:  bazaar-AT-lists.canonical.com
Subject:  Re: Bzr development stopped WAS Re: Branching from just a part of a repository?
Date:  Wed, 05 Sep 2012 10:18:08 -0400
Message-ID:  <jwvvcfszhmz.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general@gnu.org>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

>> [ and since Bzr development seems to have pretty much stopped anyway,
>> even if there were interest it would be very unlikely to see the
>> light of day ;-) ]
> Is this a joke?

No, that wasn't a joke.  Just a remark based on what I see happening.
Very few commits in bzr.dev, very few posts on this mailing-list, very
few bugs fixed (even apparently trivial ones like
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/1022160).
Add to this the departure of a lead developer, and I think the situation
is pretty clear.

As for me, it just means that the pressure to switch Emacs's repository
to Git gets every day stronger.


        Stefan


PS: I generally like using Bzr (which I use for pretty much all my VCS
needs), but as unfixed bugs accumulate, I'm beginning to feel a bit like
in the bad CVS days where you just had to get used to circumventing its
limitations, for lack of actual development.





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