What's Canonical thinking about Bazaar?

[John Szakmeister]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Ian Clatworthy
<ian.clatworthy at canonical.com> wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>
>>> And, to be honest, I
>>> would like to see more affirmation that Windows is going supported at
>>> the same level as Linux, given that Canonical is strongly interested
>>> in another OS being successful. :-)  That's a bit of a separate topic,
>>> but it does affect the scope of the community you wish to reach.
>>
>> So honestly, Canonical is not directly supporting the Windows platform
>> as much as the Linux platform.  I'm the only core dev who runs it
>> regularly
>
> I also have a Vista VM that I run Bazaar in several times a week. I've
> been using that to improve the Windows installer, build and test CHM
> docs, make the Bazaar Explorer Visual Tour screenshots, etc. It's not my
> primary OS though.
>
> Myself and many others at Canonical care greatly about Bazaar being the
> best VCS on Windows. Personally, I know lots of developers (including
> family members) who are locked into Windows and I want them to use
> Bazaar and to LOVE the experience. Strategically, it makes plenty of
> sense as well on numerous fronts: cross-platform projects, introducing
> more developers to Launchpad, etc. I'm a firm believer that more Bazaar
> developers on Windows ultimately translates to more Bazaar developers on
> Ubuntu and a better, more efficiently produced Ubuntu.

Exactly.  I'm glad we're on the same page.  I'm going to see if I can
get my VM fired up again and help on that front too.  I know we've run
into a few snaggles here and there that I'd like to see get fixed.
Thanks for the affirmation!

-John