Notes from Bazaar sprint, Tuesday

[James Westby]

Apologies for replying to old mails, but only now having the time to catch
up properly.

On Fri Nov 13 01:46:33 -0500 2009 Jonathan Lange wrote:
> [Editor's note: the question should have been:
> 
> Q. We're worried about whether the mini-grumpy / recipe stuff will be too
> simple and that people will avoid recipes because they want to do "real"
> packaging?]

That may be possible.

However, it does involve some packaging when things go wrong, and being
"too simple" isn't necessarily a problem. If it is that easy then people
may do it on the side.

I'm not sure we should be introducing complexity just to avoid this.
Looking at ways to make it compelling would be a good idea though.

> Q. Why was the 'run' command in bzr-builder?
> 
> A. Mainly for autotools case. Need to run 'make dist' to go from VCS ->
> tarball that has to be somewhere.

We could drop it if we want to require people to write new/heavily modify
the packaging for daily builds.

> Q. It sounds like we (Bazaar) could do looms or whatever without thinking too
> much about what Debian is doing?
> 
> A. Yes, I'm keen to tackle the translation problem.

Some further discussions at UDS gave me pause to think about these issues
more. Once I am back I plan to write up these thoughts more concretely for
discussion.

> Breaking down package-of-the-day
> ================================
> 
> Notes
> -----
>
>  * Combine branches without shared history

Was there any discussion of this part?

Thanks,

James