What's Canonical thinking about Bazaar?

[James Mansion]

Martin Pool wrote:
> If it's something specific like hypothetically "non-Canonical
> developers don't get useful timely reviews" or "you don't care enough
> about Windows" or "you're talking too much off the public list" or
> "I'm afraid bzr 3.0 will be proprietary" it's something we can work
> with.  It may be nontrivial to fix but it seems like a more fruitful
> conversation.
>   
As a cross-platform dev the issue of Windows support is indeed my biggest
concern, not least because I'm transioning to bzr (rather than something 
else)
because I perceived its cross-platform support to be good, and I hope it 
gets
love because its a USP and will in turn make bzr-the-product a much more
realistic sell to corporates.

I'd have to say its promising at the moment, though I don't think the 
checkin rules
should be in my personal config, but in the repository definition.  
Strange choice.

Anyway, please do make sure that you have a transparent and accessible 
story for
cross-platform (and by that I mean Windows and to some extent MacOS rather
than different CPU architectures with POSIX).

BTW personally I see 'Canonical branding' as positive because it does 
suggest
to me that the nasty nitty-gritty will be addressed - developer-led 
projects can
focus on sexy/doable too much. It also tells me that git's current 
trendiness isn't (so)
likely to mean that bzr just withers away.

I just wish the branding wasn't associated with a company that looks (to 
me) so
much like a financial basket-case.  I guess 'we' put up with a lot of 
VC-funded
startups and I'm just being unfair. :-(

James