On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On 22 May 2013 22:02, Chow Loong Jin <hyper...@debian.org> wrote: >>> [...] Bazaar (which seems to have been abandoned by >>> upstream with >2000 open bugs [1]) [...]. >> >> On the other hand, it would be nice if you keep your FUD to the minimum. >> Bazaar >> doesn't look abandoned[1], and >2000 open bugs is not uncommon. Nautilus and >> Rhythmbox themselves have >1000 open bugs each. >> >> [1] https://code.launchpad.net/bzr > > Two commits this year? The only thing that makes it not completely > abandoned by upstream is that occasionally there are a few maintenance > bugfix commits done.
While I can't imagine anything good coming from discussing VCS choices on debian-devel, I'll venture a reply... I wouldn't say that bazaar is completely "dead," I just had a commit merged this week. Though AFAICT, Canonical no longer employs anyone to work on it directly, but it seems some number of bazaar hackers are still employed in other positions there. I have no idea what their long term plans are, but I'd imagine that Launchpad and Ubuntu will continue to be consumers of bazaar for the foreseeable future. No one has stepped up to drive development, and I do wish Canonical would make some sort of official statement about their intentions. There have been a number of interesting retrospectives from former bazaar core developers, for those that are interested: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2012q4/075330.html http://www.stationary-traveller.eu/pages/bzr-a-retrospective.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2013q1/075475.html I've been the Debian maintainer for a number of bzr plugins for the past few years, and I've recently picked up the maintenance of the bzr package as well. > For the record, I do use bzr (with > http://jameswestby.net/bzr/builddeb/user_manual/merge.html ) in my > normal Ubuntu/Debian packaging workflow. I haven't figured out how to > git to work as nicely for that usecase yet. I'd encourage anyone who cares about this workflow and these packages to continue any further discussion of bazaar in Debian over on pkg-bazaar-maint. Thanks! -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething> Debian Developer <http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=asb> PGP/GPG Key ID: D53FDCB1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAL6k_AyPVeSrTVW=9bysfxvdtp4b-prsczm5fymouzmpz8r...@mail.gmail.com
