[strawman] Make Git Branches of all Ubuntu Packages Too

[Christopher Halse Rogers]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Joseph Smidt <josephsmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
>        I will up the ante: if somebody would be willing to mentor me, I would
> do the work.
>
>        Admittedly, I am a physics grad student, not a CS major so I am only
> proficient in the basic C/C++ coding that goes into numerical work. (I
> am learning Python)  So it would need to be a good and patient mentor.
> But I believe enough in the idea that I am willing to learn and will do
> the work.  And, if it worked out, you would have a lifelong maintainer
> in addition to whatever else such a task would lead to.

You might be better served by helping John Carr with his git-serve[1]
addition to bzr-git.  That will basically serve bzr branches over the
git protocol, so you don't have the same problems with maintaining two
separate repositories.  Some code is available already[2]. This seems
a better option than either having parallel git/bzr trees or switching
entirely to git (which seems tremendously unlikely).

[1] http://blogs.gnome.org/johncarr/2008/12/11/dvcs-for-gnome/
[2] https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~johncarr/bzr-git/git-serve