Roadmap for Bazaar...

[David Muir]

Tim Penhey wrote:
> Thanks John for kicking this off.
>
> I advocate for Bazaar use when I talk to people about revision control.  
> Particularly I'm talking with start-up businesses, students, or companies that 
> have CVS or Subversion running.
>
> One think I'd love to see, and I know it is something that core devs just 
> won't get authorisation to work on, is some smart, out of the box, remote 
> hosting solution.
>
> Something so a remote server (to the developer that is) is set up to easily 
> allow multiple people to push branches to a protected area, and have 
> restricted access to trunk.  And to have this configurable for multiple 
> projects.
>
> This would really help corporate uptake and simple use for small groups.
>
> I hacked something up on my local server, but this required specific groups to 
> be created, making the group the default for the users, and using the group 
> sticky bit on the filesystem.  This seemed overly complex to me to allow 
> specific people write access to a single branch.
>
> I hope I can convince someone that this is a worthwhile project to take on.
>
> Tim
>
>   

Would love to see this.
I tried setting up WebDAV a while back, but didn't have much luck with 
it on Dreamhost. I keep telling myself to try it again, but just haven't 
gotten around to doing it. IIRC it's a "dumb" transport so it's slow, 
but better than nothing.

David