Hello, Richard; On Tue, Jul 01, 2025 at 03:26:59PM -0600, Richard Wilbur wrote: > > My name is Richard Wilbur, my Savannah account name is richard_wilbur > (account # 95876), and as the GNU package maintainer for Bazaar I'm > interested in joining your ranks to help provide support for Bazaar > repository hosting in Savannah.
Thank you! ... > involvement with the bzr project. At that point the new CI infrastructure > he had been working on was: "Up and running but hosted by canonical and > requiring canonical credentials." I did not have those credentials, I > wasn't contacted by anyone at Canonical, nor did I get any response when I > reached out to several folks at Canonical I had collaborated with in the > past to fix bzr packaging and build issues. When I raised an issue > regarding Launchpad support for Continuous Integration on Bazaar branches > they said it was not currently supported but I could implement it through > the Launchpad API on an external server. Do they drop Bazaar support generally or just for this feature? In other words, are they going to maintain their fork of Bazaar? > 1. I am interested to move the Bazaar development hosting to Savannah. > (The whole deal, if possible: E-mail lists, teams, code repositories, > code reviews, bug database, documentation, automated testing for approved > branches, questions and answers, translations.) I think it's possible, more or less; the first issue I can see is naming: the 'bazaar' group already exists at Savannah. > 2. I wonder whether Canonical would be willing to assign the copyright to > the FSF or some other organization? Would that be better? Currently code > is copyrighted by Canonical and licensed as GPL 2+. Assigning the copyright to the FSF would give the GNU Project more flexibility in licensing Bazaar, but it I don't think it's crucial for Bazaar development; and I can think of no advantages in assigning the copyright to someone else. > If you are willing to have me join the Savannah Hackers, where do I start? I would start with migrating Bazaar. > What are the first spate of issues to consider the process of project > migration to Savannah? Perhaps finding out what is missing in Savannah and what is not.
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