Canonical is Removing Bazaar Support from Launchpad
To old-timers like me Launchpad, the Canonical-run development hub, is synonymous with Bazaar (bzr), the open-source distribution version control system (VCS) Canonical helped develop. Like GitHub, Launchpad lets anyone sign up and create a repo, then connect from the command-line to push code to it, handle merges, branch, fork, etc. Using ‘recipes’, code in bzr repos can be turned into DEBs, PPAs and Snaps. But the future of Bazaar on Launchpad (Breezy is a Bazaar fork, for those interested) is at dead-end. Why is Launchpad Dropping Bzr? Canonical sunsetting Bazaar may seem abrupt given it’s the code versioning system it […] You're reading Canonical is Removing Bazaar Support from Launchpad, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.
To old-timers like me Launchpad, the Canonical-run development hub, is synonymous with Bazaar (bzr), the open-source distribution version control system (VCS) Canonical helped develop. Like GitHub, Launchpad lets anyone sign up and create a repo, then connect from the command-line to push code to it, handle merges, branch, fork, etc. Using ‘recipes’, code in bzr repos can be turned into DEBs, PPAs and Snaps. But the future of Bazaar on Launchpad (Breezy is a Bazaar fork, for those interested) is at dead-end. Why is Launchpad Dropping Bzr? Canonical sunsetting Bazaar may seem abrupt given it’s the code versioning system it […]
You're reading Canonical is Removing Bazaar Support from Launchpad, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.
