your thoughts wanted on bzr team UDD focus

[Jonathan Lange]

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Vincent Ladeuil <v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr> wrote:
>>>>>> "jml" == Jonathan Lange <jml at canonical.com> writes:
>
>    jml> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Max Bowsher <maxb at f2s.com> wrote:
>    >> Vincent Ladeuil wrote:
>    >>
>    >>> * import all branches defined in a git repo instead of only HEAD
>    >>>
>    >>> The later may not be the bzr team direct responsibility, but all
>    >>> parties involved in the discussion at UDS (Keybuk, jelmer, jml,
>    >>> kiko ?) agreed about its importance
>    >>
>    >> bzr-git can already import all branches - what it can't do is import a
>    >> specific branch, which is presumably what prevents its use in Launchpad
>    >> code imports.
>    >>
>
> Err, I said and repeat: import *all* branches. bzr-git can do it,
> launchpad can do it, all we need it connecting the dots.
>
>
>    jml> Say "hinders", not "prevents". Right now, the Launchpad code import
>    jml> system (and indeed everything about Launchpad code) is very, very
>    jml> branch-oriented.
>
>    jml> Perhaps Launchpad could import all the branches in a git-repo?
>
>    jml> Probably easier for all concerned to allow us to import a single
>    jml> branch, at least to start with.
>
> No. The point is that there is not a *single* interesting branch
> to import, most of the time there are several distinct heads (so
> you can't import the most advanced one and indirectly get the
> others for free).
>

What I meant is that changing Launchpad to import all branches is a lot of work.

Changing it to allow importing of arbitrary git branches:
significantly less work, and approximates automatically importing all
branches.

jml