Plans for Bazaar

[Chris Hecker]

I always thought that if I branched bazaar I'd call it "bizarre" and keep
the bzr command as well.

Chris



On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 05:20 Brendan Simon (eTRIX) <
brendan.simon at etrix.com.au> wrote:

> On 26/5/17 10:00 pm, bazaar-request at lists.canonical.com wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 23:35:24 +0100
> From: "Martin (gzlist)" <gzlist at googlemail.com> <gzlist at googlemail.com>
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> Subject: Plans for Bazaar
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> Hello bazaar community,
>
> Jelmer and I have been doing some hacking we've been hoping to get
> around to for a while.
>
> Part of that work is a port of Bazaar and plugins to Python 3, still
> in progress. Python 2 maintenance is set to end in 2020, the codebase
> can be improved now by removing old compatibility logic.
>
> To let us work on these big changes, make it easier for others to
> contribute, and allow the bundling of existing plugins, we'd also like
> to avoid the need for a contributor licence agreement.
>
> For that to happen, we are planning a friendly fork, under the new
> name 'Breezy', with 'brz' as the tool name. The aim is to be format
> and command-line compatible, by allowing aliasing to the existing
> names.
>
> See work in progress code at:
>
>
> <https://launchpad.net/brz> <https://launchpad.net/brz>
>
> We welcome feedback, suggestions, and patches, to this mailing list or
> in private.
>
> Martin
>
>
> This is really GREAT news !!  Fingers crossed it takes off.
>
> I know it's just a name, but I can't say that Breezy really rocks.  Having
> said that I can't think of anything better.  BNG (Bazaar next gen) is
> easier to type :)  BaNG perhaps?  Just throwing it out there.
>
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