Re: bugzilla.gnome.org bzr now in launchpad

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:06:59AM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 23:02 -0700, Max Kanat-Alexander wrote:
> > 	The official source repository for the code of bugzilla.gnome.org is
> > now launchpad.
> 
> may I ask why?
> 
> why is that the GNOME's Bugzilla is *not* hosted on GNOME? is that the
> result of something like a DVCS preference? because that, I'm sorry to
> say, would look pretty stupid.

Because upstream will very likely switch to Bzr (Max is also upstream).

Same DVCS allows for stuff like:
  bzr merge bzr://bzr.bugzilla.org/bugzilla/3.4

It is on Launchpad as that is an easy place to publicly store it.

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Regards,
Olav