[gobolinux-users] Call for volunteers: would you like to be a recipe committer?

[Jeremy Visser]

MJ Ray wrote:
> Jeremy Visser <jeremy.visser at gmail.com> wrote: [...]
>> It shares all the advantages of git that you mentioned above, has great
>> tools available, and is _really_ easy to pick up. I mean, even I can use
>> it. :-P
> 
> I don't think there's a huge amount to choose between git and bzr on
> ease-of-use or development model, to be frank.  Have you tried git?

Yeah, I haven't used git. I wasn't saying bzr is easier than git, I was
just saying bzr was easy.

> Does bzr offer cvspserver, web server or other compatibility modes?

Yes, it offers a 'smart server' <http://bazaar-vcs.org/SmartServer>, but
you can publish to web simply by using 'bzr push
sftp://server/www/wherever', no Apache extensions required. Then, the
maintainer can simply 'bzr merge http://server/wherever/' your changes.

Mark Shuttleworth blogged about it a fair bit recently, some of it was
an interesting read.
<http://www.markshuttleworth.com/?s=bazaar>

>> Bazaar is the SCM used on Launchpad <http://launchpad.net/> and Ubuntu,
>> and GoboLinux could even use Launchpad's free bzr hosting.
> 
> Is Launchpad free software yet?

No, some of it is still proprietary. However, Canonical did open up
Storm, a component of it recently, with plans for more to come soon.