Entry IDs for Atom feeds generated from Bazaar branches

[John Arbash Meinel]

James Henstridge wrote:

...

> It would be nice to have a single entry ID format that we can
> recommend that such tools produce.  After some discussions with
> Robert, the format we thought might be worth suggesting is:
>    http://bazaar-vcs.org/RevisionId#$REVISION_ID
> 
> The reasons for choosing this are:
> * it is a URL, and uses a domain controlled by the project.
> * it includes the revision ID, so inherits the same global uniqueness
> properties
> * if someone types the entry ID into their web browser they'll get to
> http://bazaar-vcs.org/RevisionId, which could be a wiki page
> explaining the purpose of the URI.
> 
> How does this sound?  Does anyone have any objections or suggestions
> for a better format?
> 
> James.
> 
> 

I would only mention 2 things...

1) I don't really prefer Caps in urls. I don't really care, but maybe
"http://bazaar-vcs.org/revision-id#$REVISION_ID" ? I realize this is a
little bit conflicting with Moin, but we already have that for bzr-gtk.

2) I would also mention that they should be url escaped. (@ => %40,
etc). Just so that people don't forget about it.

John
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