[gpaw-users] Notes from the developer day at the 2013 GPAW-workshop

[Jens Jørgen Mortensen]

Den 31-05-2013 10:50, Blomqvist Janne skrev:
> Hi,
>
>> REVISION CONTROL
>> Should SVN be replaced by Bazaar or something similar?
>> JJ + Ask: switching will make everyday committers life easier.
>> We agreed to move towards using Bazaar on Launchpad.
> It seems to me that the future of bazaar is a bit uncertain. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Bazaar
>
> """
> In April 2012 Martin Pool [The Bazaar lead developer] left Canonical[23] and the pace of development of the project has recently slowed down.[24] According to Jelmer Vernooij the members of Canonical's Bazaar team were assigned to different tasks in early 2012 and he himself stepped down from contributing to Bazaar at the end of 2012, after 7 years of contributing to the project.[25] In March 2013 a discussion on the GNU Emacs mailing list started about whether Bazaar is still effectively maintained and if Emacs should move to another version control system. [26]
> """
>
> https://lwn.net/Articles/515652/
>
> I'm sure bazaar works adequately, and if ase/gpaw were already using it I don't think there would be any rush to switch, but switching to bazaar at this point sounds a bit risky..
>
> --
> Janne Blomqvist

I'm not too worried about that.  We're not just talking about bzr here - 
we're talking about the Launchpad+bzr combination.  If Launchpad stops 
supporting bzr, then I guess they will make it easy to transition to 
something else - thousands of other projects would have to make a 
transition too.

Jens Jørgen