Plans for Bazaar

[Mark Grandi]

I would be willing to help out, is there like a checklist / document of things that need to be tackled?

~Mark

> On 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 <mailto: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> <mailto:gzlist at googlemail.com>
>> To: Bazaar <bazaar at lists.canonical.com> <mailto:bazaar at lists.canonical.com>
>> 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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