Is this individual workflow viable? Can I bring it to Launchpad?

[Philippe Lhoste]

I collaborate on some open source projects (mostly for the Scintilla/SciTE project) and 
found the http://bazaar-vcs.org/Scenarios/VendorBranchForeign scenario interesting for 
this case.

However, my own personal developments are in the micro to nano scale: small Greasemonkey 
scripts, some tools in Lua or AutoHotkey, playing or helping people with Processing.org, 
exploring JavaFX, writing some Java classes or hacking some PHP/JS/CSS/HTML code, in most 
cases I have only one source file, rarely more.

Until recently, my way of keeping previous versions was crude to inexistent... After 
trying SVN, then Hg, I think I have found in Bzr the tool I needed.

I tend to group my micro-projects in one folder per language: Java, JavaFX, Lua, 
Processing, AutoHotkey, www, etc. So naturally I made a Bazaar repository in each of these 
folders: I have, for example, some 50 micro-projects (sketches) for Processing, most of 
them quickly hacked, rarely updated, it would be probably stupid to have a repository per 
sketch.
When testing Mercurial, I started by making a global repository in the umbrella folder 
holding all the sub-folders (per language), but it wasn't such a good idea either.

For these small projects, I don't feel the need to make branches for bugfixes or 
improvements, so I just hack and commit.
Then I push to a default repository (on an USB key), which allows to keep in synch two 
computers (pushing on one side, pulling on the other).

Sorry to bore you to death, but I think such solo scenario could be interesting to 
describe (most scenarios as above have "collaborative" or "team" in their descriptions... 
:-)), as it might be not so uncommon (closed source projects, open sources with only one 
person working on them...).

I have several questions (at least!):

- Is this way of working (hack, commit, push, transport, pull, merge if I have hacked, 
forgetting to pull before...) a viable one?
It seems satisfying for me (simple, effective) but there might be culprits I just don't 
see, that might bite me later (I haven't used much previous revisions yet).

- A better alternative to the USB key would be to use Launchpad. I don't want to pay, and 
currently all my code is under the zlib/libpng license (simplified BSD, more or less) 
explicitly or implicitly, so I don't mind the public exposure. But these projects are 
probably of little interest for other people (except perhaps as learning material), 
although it can be a good alternative to Pastebin and friends (when I show some code).
But I don't have a real cohesive project. Is it OK for Launchpad? Should/must I create a 
project per repository (ie. one for Java stuff, one for Lua, etc.)? Is it allowed? Is 
there a limit on the number of projects one can create?

An alternative could be to use FTP transport on some private sites I have access to. But I 
haven't seen much information on this. Does it work well? (I know, I should just try...) 
How does it work? (Transporting one big file? Lot of small files?) Speed isn't a major 
issue here, as volume is small.
I can't use Python on these sites, alas, so I can't set up a Bzr server there.

BTW, Mercurial has a list of free hosting sites 
<http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/MercurialHosting>, is there something 
like that for Bazaar? If not, it might be interesting to do it (I think SourceForge 
supports it now, no?). Is there any individual providing such hosting (like freeHg or 
Intuxication for Hg)?

Thanks for reading up to here! ;-)

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