Tla and Bazaar Branching

Status

• Created: 23/04/05 by RobertCollins

• Priority: HighPriority

• People: RobertCollinsLead, AaronBentleySecond

• Contributors:

• Interested: MartinPool, Dilinger, RobWeir, JamesBlackwell

• Status: BrainDump, UduBof, BazaarSpecification, BazaarDevel

• Branch:
• Malone Bug:
• Packages:
• Depends:

• UduSessions: 2

Introduction

This specification discusses the branding and positioning of Bazaar with respect to TLA and Gnu Arch.

Rationale

Baz is emerging as an excellent tool for distributed software development. Bazaar-NG, started after the Bazaar project promisesto be an even more excellent tool. The Bazaar branding at the moment does not take Bazaar-NG into account. Also the TLA takeup of Bazaar improvements seems to be quite slow. This needs discussion.

Scope

This spec defines the strategy for branding of Bazaar. Bazaar will be branded as 'Bazaar is a distributed revision control system that is backwards compatible with GNU Arch and will be fully compatible with Bazaar-NG'.

Some new features in Bazaar have affected TLA archives - while they don't break tla, this should not be done in future, and the existing features should not do this anymore (except where folk are already doing it, where an 'opt in' flag should be provided).

A new specification - BazSwitch - is being created to address some percieved awareness of Bazaar issues.

Implementation Plan

• RobertCollins to update the Bazaar website and primary wiki pages.

• RobertCollins to create bugs for any overly intrusive-on-tla-archive features.

Outstanding Issues