JFYI: I will be inactive for some time

[Alexander Belchenko]

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I want to say big thanks to all Bazaar team.
Bazaar incredible system and I like to using it.
And I hope after the London sprint the future
roadmap will be clear and optimistic.

I hope my work on Bazaar codebase has been useful
for project. I did not write anything big, cool and
important, just fix some bugs and try to keep
selftest passing on win32.

But after more than 1.5 year of active involving in Bazaar
development I feel slightly tired. I need some time
to rest. So probably Bazaar need new win32 maintainer
and packager.
Although building installers for win32 is not hard for me,
but I'd like to see another one person who also can do this job.
And I'm ready to train any interesting person. I have
no secrets in this area, and all detailed instructions
already present at wiki.


My unfinished work:

* My last work on specification about I18N is mostly
complete. May be it lacks some details about API of
i18n.py and interacting with gettext library. So any
person who want to work in this area may ask me freely:
I will try to tell all needed info.
* I try to get out test suite from standalone bzr.exe
because this part of codebase is big and completely
useless in bzr.exe. But selftest tied too tight inside
bzr, so right now I'm give up.


Things that upset me:

I'm slightly upset that Bazaar still don't have some
features, that discussed so many times, and that I feel
important for my everyday work:

* support for different line-endings, text file encodings
* proper cherrypicking
* work without all history in local tree (history horizon)
* support complex projects as set of subprojects (nested trees)
* also new dirstate format call contradictory feelings inside me

The most notable bzr problem -- speed -- is not problem for me,
because my trees is not very good (usually < 1K files/dirs).

And I don't have enough time and self-motivation to scratch my itches
inside Bazaar codebase. I have some ideas about cherrypicking and
supporting partial history in local tree, and may be I try to play
with them separately.


I'll try to keep my eye on Bazaar ML, but don't promise anything.
I think I will be back to active development after this summer.

Alexander

PS. Personal BIG THANKS:

to Martin: your design of bzr CLI help me to start using console tools
more elegantly. As any pure windows user (although with DOS experience)
I have no habits to use console on windows. You change my world.

to John: thanks to John currently we have bzr as very stable system
on Windows. Also John is very kind, friendly, patient and ready-to-help man.

to Robert: thanks for unit testing lessons that I indirectly learn from
your work.
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