what if tracker url changes?

[Max Bowsher]

On 17/11/10 20:48, Gordon Tyler wrote:
> On Wed, November 17, 2010 12:40 pm, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 10:59 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>> I think the proper way to do it is to use (immutable) aliases for
>>>> trackers, and specifying alias-to-tracker URL/interface mappings
>>> /inside
>>>> the repository/. That way you have zero-configuration URLs which are
>>>> easily changeable.
>>> FWIW, I completely agree.
>> Wouldn't it be sufficient to just store a map of old to new bug URL
>> locations? I don't see why this needs another level of indirection with
>> extra unique identifiers.
> 
> Why should Bazaar care at all what the contents of the tag mean? As far as
> Bazaar is concerned, "lp:12345" means no more than "torbugs:JEE-5294".
> It's up to whoever or whatever is asking for those tags to interpret them
> in the correct manner.

Gordon,

The fundamental advantage of using URLs is that they are a pre-existing
globally unique registry of identifiers.

If Bazaar was to use some other kind of identifier, it would have to
reinvent means of managing assignment and uniqueness, which it gets for
free by using URLs.

Max.

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