What's Canonical thinking about Bazaar?

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 10:14 +0100, Anteru wrote:
> 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.)

The latter: Our staff time will be focused on helping Ubuntu with its
VCS needs more, but we'll still be doing our best to have clean design,
clean code and clean UI.

>  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.
> 
> 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?

There should be a list for being created in the near future, for
discussions focused on this topic (as part of the 'Ubuntu distributed
development' project - https://edge.launchpad.net/udd).

-Rob
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