According to this thread: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2011q1/071574.html
the initial "bzr branch" command for Emacs takes twice as much for bzr.savannah.gnu.org as with lp:emacs (for machines that are not on the same LAN as bzr.savannah.gnu.org): 45 to 60 min for lp:emacs vs 2 to 2.5 hours for bzr.savannah. Even the inefficient SFTP method was much faster than the current "smart server". Note that routine day-to-day operations with the smart server are reasonably fast. However, the initial checkout that takes 2 hours is a serious turn-off for newcomers; many of them turn to git mirrors (which are synchronized with the Bazaar repo only once a day and lack a common language, revision ID wise, with the mainline development), which is undesirable. According to this message: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2011q1/071576.html we could get significantly faster operation during the initial "bzr branch" command if the Bazaar server on savannah would be upgraded to a newer (2.2+) version. Is this possible? TIA
