[MERGE] Enable writable http transports

[Andrew Bennetts]

Aaron Bentley wrote:
[...]
> > Nice catch. Done. Is there a syntax checker for PEP8 ?
> 
> I don't think so.  I'd use it, myself.

I think pychecker and/or pylint check parts of PEP 8, fwiw.

[...]
> >     Aaron> Could you please not name your branch
> >     Aaron> bzr.webdav/trunk?  The last element of the name should
> >     Aaron> be unique to your project, because that's the default
> >     Aaron> name used in various places.  Ideally, the last
> >     Aaron> element would be the plugin name, i.e. "bzr/webdav" as
> >     Aaron> in "bzrlib.plugins.webdav".  "trunk/bzr.webdav" or
> >     Aaron> "bzr.webdav.trunk" would also be fine.
> > 
> > Do you know how to rename a branch from the launchpad web site ?
> 
> I haven't tried it.  Possibly an sftp client would work, but I don't use
> launchpad SFTP very much.  I get the impression their SFTP server is
> rather rigid.

Launchpad doesn't yet allow you to rename a branch.  If you ask an admin on
#launchpad, or ask on the launchpad-users list, an admin can do it for you.
We'll allow users to do it themselves at some point, a fair bit of the necessary
infrastructure is already there.

-Andrew.