bzr 2.1 retrospective

[Aaron Bentley]

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Martin Pool wrote:
> One nice outcome of stable branches is that people can remove old APIs
> more easily, and plugins within a series will not be broken.  It's
> very good to see for example Jelmer recently deleting unnecessary
> APIs.
> 
> * affirmed: API stability by code branch
> * affirmed: delete crufty code!

These are great things, but as the maintainer of bzr-pipeline, it's felt
like a bumpy ride following the betas.  APIs have been more subject to
change in the beta series, yet because they're betas, require_any_api
doesn't distinguish between beta1 and the final released version.  I
think there's room for improvement here.

> Patch piloting also seems to be going well.

You don't know how glad I am.  I've always felt that it was important to
make new contributors welcome, and that timely feedback was a key part
of that.  One of the reasons I came up with Bundle Buggy was to
encourage responses, and so that people could use its queue to drive the
listing down to zero.  I'm glad something like that is happening now.

Aaron
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