Usage of bzr-hg plug-in

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 07:05:33PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> The ‘bzr-hg’ plugin <URL:https://launchpad.net/bzr-hg/> doesn't give
> much information on how to use it. 
Similarly to bzr-git and bzr-svn, it will allow access to Mercurial
repositories from Bazaar. The existing documentation for Bazaar should
be sufficient here, as bzr-hg doesn't provide anything visible in the
UI of Bazaar.

> (Is there a place at Launchpad
> where the documentation for a package is stored? Or does Launchpad not
> encourage standard documentation for packages?)
Not sure I follow, if there would be more documentation necessary 
it wouldn't be on Launchpad but inside of the package itself. Similar
to e.g. alioth.

> $ bzr info
> Standalone tree (format: unnamed)
> Location:
>   branch root: .
> [... traceback ... ]
> Well, at least the plugin is doing something, I suppose. I'm not even
> sure if I did anything wrong.
You didn't do anything wrong, this is a bug in the plugin (which is
pre-alpha at the moment).

> I hope this is useful to whoever needs to know about it. I would
> submit a bug report, 
> but unlike this mailing list it requires me to
> manage a separate authenticatio`n identity.
I agree this one of the major problems of Launchpad, and it would be
much appreciated if they allowed e.g. OpenID authentication or something like 
that. 

It's not *that* big a thing though imo, there are lots of other sites that
also require authentication using passwords, including for example
alioth. Also, if you're subscribed to the mailing list, you did have to
specify a password for it in mailman, creating an account for
your email address on lists.canonical.com.

Cheers,

Jelmer