Future of GNU Arch, bazaar and bazaar-ng ... ?

[Robert Collins]

On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 23:01 +0200, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> [ Adding one question here: Is the list gnu-arch-dev dead? It's the
>   second time I recieve a permanent error error while trying to post
>   to it. I'm keeping bazaar-ng and bazaar in Cc: Please, reply to
>   this message if you wish to crosspost to the 3 lists. ]
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Recently, Tom announced he was stopping the mainainance of GNU
> Arch[1]. I didn't see an "official announcement", but as I understand
> it, Canonical decided to move the effort from Bazaar to Bazaar-NG[2].
> The wiki[3] now presents baz as "Bazaar 1" and bzr, AKA Bazaar-NG, as
> "Bazaar 2".
> 
> This raises a few questions to me:
> 
> What's the future of tla 1.x? Same for 2.0. Given that the main
> contributors of GNU Arch--except Tom--are mostly people working now on
> Bazaar-NG, I _guess_ Bazaar is the way of the future.
> 
> What's the future of Bazaar (baz)? There was a roadmap here[4] that I
> suppose is mostly outdated. In particular, I'd like to know if the
> following plans have a chance to be implemented:
> 
> 1) The namespace change (making a/c--b--v optional). If this makes its
>    way into bazaar, I guess this will have an influence on front-ends
>    in particular. Actually, I think this idea should be dropped given
>    the new Bazaar<->Bazaar-NG situation.

To do this in the baz C code base would take a lot of effort. With the
plan to release bazaar-ng as Baz 2, I'm not planning on coding on the
namespace stuff in the C code base. I don't think it would make sense
for a volunteer to do this either.

> 2) The cached-inventory system. Since, as I understand it, Robert
>    started working on this, and it could really improve the
>    performance, that may be a good thing to get it in Bazaar.

I am planning to get this finished off and into baz 1.5, but we'll see
if its stable enough once I get back to .au.


Cheers,
Rob

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