[ZF] Proposal: Launchpad code hosting for ZF projects; free commercial support for migration

[Roger Ineichen]

Hi

> Betreff: Re: [ZF] Proposal: Launchpad code hosting for ZF 
> projects; free commercial support for migration
> 
> Gary Poster wrote:
> > Launchpad would really like to provide code hosting for the Zope 
> > Foundation.
> 
> This, unfortunately, means using bzr.
> 
> Other people may disagree, but bzr is not mature yet, 
> particularly when it comes to GUI tools, particularly on Windows.
> 
> I would be really upset to lose all that is offered by 
> TortoiseSVN in terms of introspection of the revision tree, 
> visual diffing over periods of time, etc.
> 
> I reckognise that I'm probably in the minority on that front, 
> but where I may not be in the minority is in needing to learn 
> a new source control system, which seems like a needless 
> barrier to entry. I'm also generally wary of distributed 
> source control systems and would certainly prefer to see "one 
> master repository" whatever the decision is.

You ar not alone!

a big -1 if I can't use TortoiseSVN

Why should I use bzr if all my other open source repository
use svn? The benefit is defently to less for me.

Regards
Roger Ineichen


> We could just as easilly shove the source tree somewhere that 
> hosts svn for free (SourceForge/Google) and keep using 
> Launchpad for project management...
> 
> Just my few coins,
> 
> Chris
> 
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