Re: Basic Bazaar guide for Emacs hackers.

["Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     Okay. Your experience trumps over my reasoning. Page deleted.
>
> What page did you delete?  I hope it was not your intro to simple use
> of Bzr.  I saved a copy; if necessary I will republish it.

The page was restored by Karl Fogel some minutes later with a note at
the beginning encouraging the reader to try the distributed workflow.

I'm not against recommending the distributed workflow. Actually, the
workflow that I use for my work is far more complex than the distributed
one recommended by Karl. What I find puzzling is the hostility towards
the centralized workflow described on BzrQuickStartForEmacsDevs. It is a
correct practice, which Bazaar proudly advertises as one of its multiple
supported workflows. In the context of Emacs, every developer can use
the distributed workflow, the centralized one or even switch between
them at any time without causing harm to the project or inconveniencing
other developers, as far as he follows some simple rules when he sends
his changes upstream.

I have the impression that some people thinks that having developers not
using a distributed workflow since day one would signal a failed
transition, or a failure of Bazaar itself adapting to the project. Quite
the contrary: the fact that Bazaar supports multiple compatible
workflows allowing each user to choose whatever suits him better is,
possibly, the best selling point for Bazaar.

-- 
Óscar