Client-side bzr, server-side svn

[Ben Finney]

John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

> Ben Finney wrote:
> > I'm looking at some options for hosting a few small free-software
> > projects. I'm finding that "free Subversion hosting" is easy
> > enough to find, "free Bazaar hosting / free arbitrary storage
> > space" is not so easy.
> > 
> > How feasible is it for me to use Bazaar exclusively on any
> > workstations I use, but push branches frequently to a Subversion
> > store? Can this be done with checkouts?
>
> Well, one interesting thing is that all you need is free disk
> hosting, and you have server side hosting.

Yes. I'm looking for services that offer more than just disk hosting,
but also offer other project management infrastructure. Most of them
offer either CVS (never!) or Subversion; few offer arbitrary disk
space as well.

Thus, I'm finding ones that are attractive, except for the fact that I
want to use Bazaar.

> That said, there is a bzr-svn plugin, which should allow you to have
> local bazaar branches, that interoperate with a subversion
> repository. I have not personally used it, but a few people have,
> and to fairly good success.

I'm hoping to hear from folks who are using it as a store for their
Bazaar branches.

> It also depends what bonus features you are looking for. For
> example, there is work being done so that 'trac' (one of the big
> programs for svn) can use bzr as a back end. It isn't complete yet,
> but I'm told that with the latest version of 'trac', it works pretty
> well.

That's interesting to know, thanks.

> But really, what are you really looking for in a host? I would guess
> that launchpad.net would support almost everything you would need.

One requirement is that they use only free software for the hosting
services. Unfortunately, that eliminates Launchpad and Sourceforge.

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Ben Finney