Please register bazaar-ng branches at launchpad

[John Arbash Meinel]

James Blackwell wrote:
> While the group has been working on Bazaar-NG the launchpad team has been
> working on Launchpad. The site is shaping up quite a bit and is ready to 
> get some exercise in the branch-represention department. The Launchpad
> team is hacking hard on the codebase and can use a pet project that is
> heavily involved in Bazaar-NG in order to spur along development.
> 

Do you only want branches of bazaar, or do you want branches of other
projects which use bzr as well?

One bit of feedback, though. It is a little clumsy to enter a bunch of
branches. You have to 'back' to the bzr/+branches page, and then select
 '+ Add Bazaar Branch'. There is no 'Add another branch' on the final
screen.

And also, I get timeouts rather frequently. Out of 4-5 branches, I've
gotten 2 timeouts. Resubmitting seems to work fine.

Also, I'm worried about branch names conflicting. However it looks like
the branch references include the username, as in here:
https://launchpad.net/people/john-arbash-meinel/+branch/bzr/storage

(By the way, is there any way to change my username to 'jam' or
'jameinel' instead of the full john at arbash-meinel.com?)

Anyway, would it be possible for Launchpad to figure out the branch name
as just the last hunk of the branch url? That is all I'm using anyway,
and it seems like a reasonable default, allowing you to fill in one less
field.

Oh, and on the list of branches page, they really should be sorted
better. *Maybe* it is okay to have New first, but really the mature
branches should be on the top, not the experimental ones.

And it might be nice to have the top-most branch be the 'official'
bzr.dev branch. Otherwise when I go to that page, I see a dozen
branches, and I don't know which is the "correct" one.

Oh, and I have a bunch of older branches in:
http://bzr.arbash-meinel.com/branches/OLD/

Some of them are format-4 branches. Are you interested in having me
register those as well?

I hope I didn't register too many :) I probably added around 20 branches.

John
=:->


> That project is us. This project literally has dozens of Bazaar-NG
> branches. In one branch over here, there's tree transform hacks. In
> another branch over there, there's new man page code. I even here there's
> a branch in the wild that supports bzr checkouts. =)
> 
> I think the time has come for us to get our branches registered in
> launchpad. That gives the launchpad guys a strawman to hack against as
> they work on visualization. To meet this end, I'd like to ask each of you
> to take some time to add some of your own branches at launchpad.net.
> 
> In order to make this as easy as possible for the I-don't-data-entry
> sorts, I'm happy to do it for you -- at least for now. If you email me the
> names, locations and descriptions of your branches, then I'll ensure that
> they are added to launchpad.  If you choose this avenue, please make a
> launchpad account so that I can assign your brnaches to you. Failing that,
> I'll be the master of your branches. :) 
> 
> So, if you don't mind, please take a moment to add some of your branches
> at https://launchpad.net/products/bzr/+branches. There are already a
> number of them there so that you won't be alone. =)
> 
> Regards,
> James
> 
> P.S. Think of the value for this when showing Bazaar-NG off to your
> peers. A website listing a long list of independant, healthy branches is
> enough to put the fear of $DIETY into any RCS and to show any other
> project just how awesome Bazaar-NG is.
> 
> 

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