[bt-devel] The future of development and DVCS

[Raoul Snyman]

On Saturday 05 December 2009 02:29:05 'Kang Sun' wrote:
> [If anyone objects to top-posting, please say something]

Me. Bandwidth is expensive here in SA, I could do with smaller e-mails. Inline 
posting and trimming replies would benefit me greatly.

> I'm in favor of a move to Bazaar as long as there is a gatekeeper (human
> or not) for the main branch.
> 
> As for SF, if the bzr support is still bad, why not move a fork over to
> Launchpad?  Are reports of SF support of bzr still bad?

OpenLP moved over to bzr on Launchpad (we moved over to bzr before SF.net 
supported it). We're still using SF.net for our releases, just hosting our 
code at LP.

One of the things that really sold me on LP was the approval system. If you 
want to merge something from your local branch into trunk, you push your 
branch up to LP, and then propose a merge. People on the core team then get an 
e-mail, and can approve or reject the merge proposal. It has a nice web 
interface for viewing the diff between trunk and your branch too.

Of course you don't need to use the proposal system, but if you do, it helps 
to keep and improve the quality of the code in trunk, and also can prevent 
problems and bugs from arising.

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