[rfc] bzr-colo into core

[Martin Pool]

On 23 March 2011 10:53, Ben Finney <ben+bazaar at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 06:29 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
>> > To that end, getting it packaged in Debian Wheezy (current “testing”
>> > suite) would be a big help.
>> An equivalent of bzr-colo should land in bzr core before wheezy is
>> frozen
>
> What does this mean? It seems to contradict Martin's request that
> ‘bzr-colo’ should go into Bazaar's core. You're saying that that won't
> happen, but an equivalent will go in?

I'm not proposing to merge bzr-colo just as it is with no fixes or
integration (there would be too many rough edges, eg the absolute path
bug), and nor am I proposing to rewrite new code with equivalent
functions.  Just where we end up is to be determined, so "bzr-colo"
and "equivalent" are a bit fuzzy at the moment.

>> With that in mind, I don't think it's a good idea to put bzr-colo into
>> wheezy at this point.
>
> That seems counter to the goalintent of getting many more people to try
> ‘bzr-colo’ *before* it goes into Bazaar core.

Packaging bzr-colo as it stands now would be useful in its own right,
and would help people participating in this thread try it out.  But
installing it is really pretty easy (`bzr branch lp:bzr-colo
~/.bazaar/plugins/colo`), and really pretty trivial compared to the
commitment of changing your work practice to use it and posting some
thoughtful opinions on how it worked out.  So packaging it, while
useful, is probably not on the shortest path to deciding what we'll do
in bzr core.

If you want to package it, Jelmer or myself will mentor/sponsor you.

Martin