Growth of Ubuntu Distributed Development

James Westby james.westby at canonical.com
Mon Jul 26 20:15:38 BST 2010


On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:07:59 +0200, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:
> We got some more feedback last night from Mathias and Thierry, maybe
> they can add something to what I remember:
> 
> * dpkgv3 tends to mean that the diffs generated by bzr get harder to
> read, but we could handle this and make it look better
> * looms are good; it would be useful to expand packages into looms

I think these are covered by bugs we already have? Maybe an explicit one
for the first part would be good to have.

> * when users submit changes with changes naively committed into the
> working tree we could automatically correct that into the correct
> patch style for the package

A bug for this sounds good.

> * it would be cool to have a bot that notices package merge proposals
> and builds and attaches a binary package for testing, so it's ready to
> go as soon as someone looks at the merge

We can file a bug for this, though it's a project of its own, and not
strictly limited to package branches (a generic "run some tests against
a merge proposal" bot we could configure would be great).

Thanks,

James



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