[Ubuntu Chicago] Greetings

[John Arbash Meinel]

Chad Sutton wrote:
> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Hi fellow Chicaganites (I never know what form that should take :).
> 
> I've always been interested in getting more active in community
> activities. I'm currently employed by Canonical to work on Bazaar
> (http://bazaar-vcs.org, https://launchpad.net/bzr). I'd be more than
> happy to discuss the project with anyone interested.
> 
> Anyway, I just thought I would say hi, and check in with other people in
> the area.
> 
> John
> =:->
>>

> John,

> Welcome! A few of us were just discussing bzr this weekend in fact. I'm
> hoping to see an Eclipse plugin at some point. Are there plans for that?


There is one in progress:

https://launchpad.net/bzr-eclipse

It is very alpha at this stage. I think the work is being focussed on
how to get python and java to play nicely together.

The next step is trying to figure out how to teach Eclipse not to think
in a distributed manner. It's versioning subsystem has a pretty
CVS/SVN-centric view of the world. Which we can pretend to be like, but
you lose some of the advantages.

Also, most of the core developers are python and vim kind of guys. So we
don't have as much experience with what would make a nice Eclipse
plugin. We would be happy to help people create one, but we personally
don't know what it would look like.

So if you are interested, we would be happy to have you contribute. Even
just getting general feedback of what you want to see in it would be
helpful.

John
=:->