[DRAFT][RFC] Migrating to rich roots

[Robert Collins]

On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 14:03 +0100, Martin Pool wrote:
> 2009/4/22 Robert Collins <robert.collins at canonical.com>:
> > So, to enable dogfooding dev6-rich-root we need to have our branches be
> > rich roots.
> >
> > I'd like to propose that we start with a plugin - say bzrtools - first,
> > to get any remaining issues with migrating out in the open and fixed.
> 
> That sounds good to me too.
> 
> We should also make a plan for Launchpad, MySQL, and other big users.
> Obviously they'll have different timeframes and comfort levels.
> Launchpad devs are keen to dogfood it as soon as bzrlib is merged into
> their trunk (and maybe after we've started dogfooding ourselves.)

Lets see how one goes, write a plan for bzr then, get us migrated, and
use the info from that to write a plan for larger still projects.

dogfooding dev6 requires *both* rich roots, and a willingness to be
running beta code in production. There are plenty of things to get right
between here and there.

-Rob
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