your thoughts wanted on bzr team UDD focus

[Tim Penhey]

On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:49:32 Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Martin Pool wrote:
> > What I'm trying to get at here is the next level of detail of what we
> > can be doing to help with bzr builder, imports and bugs?  If a major
> > cause of failing imports is lack of git submodule support, that would
> > be a strategic thing for us to resolve.
> 
> If you look at mwhudson's research:
> 
> https://devpad.canonical.com/~mwh/values-sorted.txt
> 
> Only five failures are due to the lack of submodule support.
> 
> However, we can ignore svn issues because we're switching to bzr-svn.
> (We hope that will solve many of our problems, but whichever problems
> remain will be *different*)

Well, bzr-svn can't support svn:externals properly until bzr has nested trees 
as well.

Personally I'd like to see externals of some form supported natively in bzr.

Tim