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We’ve just upgraded Launchpad’s builder machines to Bazaar 2.4. Most importantly, this means that recipe builds of very large trees will work reliably, such as the daily builds of the Linaro ARM-optimized gcc. (This was bug 746822 in Launchpad). We are going to do …
bzr-svn, bzr-git and bzr-hg are plugins for bzr that make Subversion, Git and Mercurial branches first class citizens in the Bazaar world by allowing you to access them in the same way that you would access native Bazaar branches. Bazaar has supported multiple file formats from …
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Image no longer available: Bazaar logo The Bazaar project released their version 2.0.0 this week. I spoke to Martin Pool, the project’s lead, about the release and Bazaar generally. Matthew: Congratulations on the release of Bazaar 2.0.0! If you had to come up with a …
As you might have heard already, Launchpad can now import code from Git repositories. You can then create Bazaar branches of those Git repos. For example: bzr branch lp:git Thanks to Jelmer for bzr-git and Michael & Paul for tying it into our rock-solid import system.
Here on the Launchpad team we work pretty closely with the Bazaar community. This week, Canonical’s London HQ has been host to a Bazaar sprint. It’s been great to meet up with members of the Bazaar community from Australia, the USA, Argentina, France, the Netherlands, …
Launchpad is kinda hard to describe. When I’m asked what it is, I normally use three or more of the words “open source free software support project Q&A code registration bugs management listing bazaar planning hosting”. Most people make comparisons to …
The release of Bazaar 0.17, a couple of weeks ago, got me thinking. Before I joined the Launchpad team, I knew that version control was important but it wasn’t something I thought about a great deal. In previous jobs, I’d used Subversion to manage documentation and, …