bzr and Ubuntu: what it means for vcs-pkg (was: Re: Bazaar branches for all Ubuntu source packages available)

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 05:09:58PM +0000, James Westby wrote:
> > Why you don't think it would be a good idea?
> 
> I'm not sure whether providing branches for each VCS is a good idea,
> as I'm not sure it would help collaboration that much. If I grab a
> bzr branch to work on a feature, and you want to use git to work on
> that feature too then we have to provide a service to synchronise
> branches for you, and you would have to wait while my branch was
> imported to git before you could start work.

On that I agree, I was just thinking at your infrastructure as more
general than Ubuntu's. Hence, on the assumption that other people
might be interested to setting up something similar for their beloved
Debian derivative, it just makes sense to have a choice of DVCSes.

ACK / thanks for the info on the rest.

Cheers.

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