Growth of Ubuntu Distributed Development

[Martin Pool]

On 20 July 2010 00:09, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> On Monday, July 19, 2010 05:59:22 pm Francis J. Lacoste wrote:

> It's not apparent to me that enough has changed since I wrote this:
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-distributed-devel/2010-
> January/000373.html
>
> to warrant giving it another try.

Fair enough, there are some things that are not fixed there.  Some are fixed:

 * changelogs should now autoresolve conflicts:
<https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr-builddeb/+bug/516060> and
friends, but perhaps more can be done
 * needing to bzr commit as well as editing the changelog: you can
either use 'debcommit' or bzr will use the changes to the
debian/changelog as the suggested message
<https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/331993>; this might need to be
better documented
 * merge-upstream should automatically populate debian/changelog with
"new upstream" etc
<https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bzr-builddeb/+bug/296516>

Some still need to be done:

 * https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr-builddeb/+bug/607682 - better
workflow for getting all the relevant branches
 * https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr-builddeb/+bug/607684 - single
command to push and upload

Both require some design work.

You also had the issue that the documentation needs to be better,
which is probably still true but not a very good bug to file.

I believe Barry also has a bunch of UDD bugs to file, including about
giving warnings when things are out of date.

-- 
Martin