Promoting the use of Mercurial; was: Re: gnome dvcs survey results

[Theodore Tso]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:05:36PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:

> This makes the bzr dev community look still smaller: 4 main
> committers who do the brunt of the work (but all 4 very actively
> committing):
> 
> > = Bazaar churn =
> > john -bei- arbash-meinel.com                245992 
> > mbp -bei- sourcefrog.net                    217457 
> > robertc -bei- robertcollins.net             186870 
> > Aaron Bentley                               165001
> > andrew.bennetts -bei- canonical.com          68116 
> > v.ladeuil+lp -bei- free.fr                   42179 
> > ian.clatworthy -bei- internode.on.net        35963 
> > bialix -bei- ukr.net                          9809 
> 
> Does anyone know who of those is paid by Canonical? 

It looks like all of them are paid by Canonical.  The following are
members of the Private Launchpad group "canonical-bazaar" which is
described as "Canonical Bazaar staff (private team)[1]:

      Andrew Bennetts
      Elliot Murphy 	
      Ian Clatworthy
      John A Meinel 
      Jonathan Lange
      Martin Pool 	
      Michael Hudson 	
      Robert Collins 	
      Tim Penhey 	

So of the top 4 committers, all but Aaron Bentley is a mamber of
"canonical-bazaar".  Aaron Bentley, as well as Martin Pool, however,
are on the "Canonical Launchpad Developers" list[2], which I presumem
means that he's paid by Canonical to work on Launchpad.  (Launchpad
still being closed-source, this seems a good bet).

So I repeat my earlier question; if Mark Shuttleworth were to ever
pull the plug on bzr, would it have a viable development community?  I
suspect no one knows for sure, but it seems very likely its rate of
development would go down...

							- Ted

[1]  https://launchpad.net/~canonical-bazaar/+members
[2]  https://launchpad.net/~launchpad/+members