Re: Git to Bzr - what works?

[Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>I have had similar experiences.  I would conservatively estimate it cost
>me 40 man-hours to work with Bazaar instead of Git when I was doing the
>GnuTLS integration.  I lost work several times!  Perhaps I'm an idiot
>unable to grasp the subtleties of Bazaar, but I think the *cost* of
>using Bazaar to casual contributors like me should be considered.
>
>(asbestos underwear on, preparing underground bunker, etc.)
>
>If a technical solution must be had (and I don't think that this is a
>techical problem), let's do it at the origin, providing Git and Bazaar
>repositories that synchronize.  Hire/find a person to do it.  Their time
>will be spent developing synchronization tools and procedures so the
>rest of us won't have to.  Let's not push that pain out to the
>contributors in the form of plugins and walkthroughs.

I agree, and think there are other casual contributors and minor
maintainers here who agree.  This has not led to any change in the
Bzr-primary policy, but little reminders of it are useful from time to
time because otherwise the issue would look quiescent when it's not.

I will continue to use Bzr here as long as necessary, but it definitely
slows down the rate at which I can do Emacs work.