What's Canonical thinking about Bazaar?

[Martin Pool]

2009/11/2 Anteru <newsgroups at catchall.shelter13.net>:
> Hi,
>
>>   * the 'strategic' or 'long-term' portion of our work is going to
>> focus on Ubuntu stories, to be more precisely determined in the next
>> few weeks.
>>  * the rest of our time will continue to be driven by community
>> feedback and building a great program in its own right
> does this mean that Bazaar is going to be more specialised (by focusing
> on Ubuntu-related problems), or do you try to extend the existing
> functionality to support Ubuntu-specific cases as well (for instance,
> allow new hooks for plugins and then write Ubuntu-specific plugins,
> instead of hard-wiring something like bzr branch --ubuntu.) As a
> developer, I'd be vary to choose a solution which a tight focus on one
> particular project, so I hope you can debunk this right away.

Definitely (I would almost say 'obviously') by extending Bazaar, not
by making it any less generally useful.

For instance, launchpad recently got the feature of branches linked to
an Ubuntu package, but without losing any features for people using
branches on a product.  ('bzr log lp:ubuntu/inkscape' etc)

This could be things like:

 * fixing bugs in general that could affect anyone but that happen to
affect Ubuntu people more
 * doing things that make it easier to write plugins like builddeb, or
working on those plugins themselves
 * handling cases like parallel imports
 * improving the quality of the Launchpad import service or foreign branches

I realize it was an example but I can't imagine having 'bzr branch
--ubuntu', even in a plugin.

> I'd be also curious to hear what problems Ubuntu development poses on
> Bzr, but I guess this is going to be addressed in a future mail?

Yes.

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