UDD stakeholders

[Barry Warsaw]

On Sep 21, 2010, at 05:07 PM, Martin Pool wrote:

>Recently, on the bzr team, we've been working on better conflict
>handling, including cases that come up when flipping through a loom;
>lower connection overhead for Launchpad; memory usage and performance
>on big trees; better integrating bzr-loom; and just general bug fixing
>and improvements.  Over the next few months I expect we'll be
>continuing with these, and also adding a better built-in colocated
>branch model (which connects to bzr-loom, to git imports, similar
>things).

These all sound great Martin, thanks.

Specifically on colocated branches, what are the plans for nested branch
support?  I've been thinking that this (in addition to looms) might be a good
way to handle the debian/ packaging directory.

Let me also point you to something I've just hacked together today:

    https://edge.launchpad.net/bzr-debuntu

It's a plugin that provides some convenient mappings for getting at source
branches.  For example, with this plugin I can do:

    bzr branch u:gtimelog

to get the version of gtimelog in the latest series of Ubuntu.  Or

    bzr branch d:s/gtimelog

to get the version in Debian Squeeze.  The protocol part is the distro
(ubuntu, u, debian, d all supported), and the optional first path component is
the distroseries (maverick/m, lucid/l and so on, as well as squeeze/s and
lenny/l).

It's a quick and dirty hack, no tests or docs yet.  I'm not yet positive the
url mapping is the right way to go, and the series names are hard-coded (it
should consult Launchpad).  The urls just expand to their lp: equivalent and
then LaunchpadDirectory does the final resolution.  Still, it's already saved
me typing. :)

I'll play with it a bit more, try to put together some tests and docs and
register it on the BzrPlugins page.  Let me know what you think.

-Barry
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