What's Canonical thinking about Bazaar?
Alexander Belchenko
bialix at ukr.net
Tue Nov 3 20:53:39 GMT 2009
Ian Clatworthy пишет:
> Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>
>> This implies that Bazaar developers don't know what Canonical wants
>> and haven't been addressing it in the past.
>
> Huh? That's simply wild speculation.
>
> Canonical has been *very* open about what it expects from the core team:
>
> 1. Make a tool developers love to use.
>
> 2. High performance & efficiency (remove the #1 adoption blocker for bzr
> 1.x by providing a better default format and better code in 2.x).
>
> 3. Make it easier for new users to get into Bazaar: better docs, better
> UI, remove the need to think about formats.
>
> These have expanded over time. Adding one doesn't make earlier ones
> redundant, though newer ones receive more short-term focus.
>
> As Martin's email announced, Canonical is now adding a forth:
>
> 4. Think about the bigger picture and the role of the VCS from code
> import/migration to packaging. Solve that for Ubuntu developers and
> you're a long way there to solving it for other teams as well.
>
> That's totally consistent with my "Community-Agile Software Guidance"
> paper published 15 months ago btw.[1]
>
> We're having a Bazaar sprint next week. We'll be discussing 2.1
> priorities there and communicating what comes out of that then. If you
> want to see *particular* UI issues addressed in parallel with other
> work, let us know what matters to you and we can use that input in our
> planning process. Please raise bugs or put together blueprints (if not
> already done) and register them on the Wiki page I've just created for
> that purpose:
>
> http://bazaar-vcs.org/MyTopUiComplaints
>
> At some point, it would be good to have a broader user survey about how
> we did with 2.0 and what we need to do better, both process wise and
> product wise. If someone wants to step forward and run that, speak up.
Ian, I'm sure you're aware of Three wishes section at Roadmap:
http://bazaar-vcs.org/Roadmap#Three%20wishes
Is not it supposed to be the light form of such survey?
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