Is this right?

[Vincent Ladeuil]

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

    Stephen> Vincent Ladeuil writes:
    >> >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
    >> 
    Stephen> Guillermo Gonzalez writes:
    >> >> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Russel Winder
    >> 
    >> >> > To be honest all that is needed is a small announcement
    >> >> > email on the email list and a note on the Lauchpad pages.
    >> >> > The issue is public information presented in places where
    >> >> > people can find it easily.
    >> 
    Stephen> I'm sorry, but that's 1995 thinking.  In 2008, the
    Stephen> issue is not where "people can find it easily"---as
    Stephen> you point out, people generally won't go farther
    Stephen> than "trivially"---it is where "machines can follow
    Stephen> it automatically".  We know how to do this.
    >> 
    >> 
    >> You're talking about the other side of the problem there, Russel
    >> was talking about the subscribers of a branch, you're talking
    >> about the publisher.

    Stephen> I don't understand.  You're saying Russel thinks the
    Stephen> *subscribers* should post an announcement? 

No of course :) I may have mis-read "We know how to do this"
meaning "in theory, but bzr doesn't today", so I replied trying
to show how bzr does it today.

    Stephen> That's definitely not how I read it!

Me neither.

Sorry for the misunderstanding :-/

    >> On that side there are indeed several means to address the
    >> problem but none can be fully automated, the publisher *has* to
    >> do *something*.

    Stephen> Yes ... my point is that if the publisher does it
    Stephen> right, and bazaar supports doing it right, the
    Stephen> subscribers need do *nothing*.

We agree on the general case then.

   Vincent