Handling unmergeable files -- a call to arms

[Martin Pool]

Hi Russel,

> The core team still have higher priorities than this, so it is really up
> to others in the Bazaar community to become involved.
>
> My thinking is that we can have a short debate on the list, leading to a
> group of people splitting off using some mechanism or other, so as to
> come up with ideas and prototypes that can be submitted to the core team
> for review.

It's fine for the discussion to happen on this list, and I suspect
lots of people working on other things will participate in the
threads.  It's just that until we've got through more of the things on
the core plan, like shipping 2.0, nested trees, and the user model
cleanup, we won't spend much time directly coding on it.

Here are two possible ways forward:

 * write a science-fiction user manual for how you'd really like it to work
 * write a plugin that does the simplest thing that could possibly
work (tm) - maybe keeping a list in ~/.bazaar/ of locked files, and
sending mail when a lock is taken or released - or maybe committing to
this list in a centralized branch

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>