Plans for Bazaar

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 08:38:59PM +0100, Martin (gzlist) wrote:
> On 26/05/2017, Mark Grandi <markgrandi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would be willing to help out, is there like a checklist / document of
> > things that need to be tackled?
> 
> Sure!
> 
> We've got rough notes in a doc, though some are large refactorings for
> Python 3 which I'll need to coordinate. Others are pretty stand-alone:
> 
>   * Relocate ~/.bazaar and ~/.bzr.log to XDG[1] happy place
> 
>   * Replacement for bzr-pager in core
> 
>   * Logo for breezy
> 
>   * Python 3 incompatibilities with extension modules:
>    ** Use of cmp and string handling in _dirstate_helpers_pyx
>     * Use of Py_TPFLAGS_CHECKTYPES in _static_tuple_c
>     * Use of PyObject_Compare and direct ob_type in _patiencediff_c
>     * Py_InitModule3 plus other setup in _static_tuple_c and _patiencediff_c
> 
>   * Any pet bugs? I have a few:
>     * $ bzr switch -b existing_branch
>     * $ bzr rm §
>     * $ bzr help envvars
> 
> And really anything else you're interested in or would like to change.
> I'll put out a call for testing specifically when closer to a
> releasable point, but feedback now on code and documentation is
> valuable.

We now also have the bug tracker in our Launchpad project enabled, so you can
file smaller items there. https://launchpad.net/brz/+filebug

If you have pet bugs in bzr that can be reproduced with brz, please click "Also
affects" on them and specify brz.

Jelmer