[Mailman-Developers] Should we move to Bazaar?

[Barry Warsaw]

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On May 3, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Barry Warsaw writes:
>
>> Your point about interoperability is an important one, and definitely
>> a factor in the decision.  I think the risk is mitigated by tools
>> like Tailor,
>
> Tailor is great, but "mitigated" is as far as you can go.  The basic
> stuff like branches and committer id is properly moved from one to the
> other.  However, you can lose some metadata going from one dvcs to
> another if the target doesn't support it.  For example, git supports
> both author and committer IDs for each commit, which others don't, and
> git has its signed tags.

So my take away from this is that while a conversion would be / 
possible/ it's not completely seamless or automatic.  If we choose  
wrong, we'll suffer some pain, but we'll recover. ;)  Would you say  
that's accurate?  I could live with that.

- -Barry

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