On Mon, Jul 07, 2025 at 06:33:24PM -0600, Richard Wilbur wrote: ... > Recently Canonical has announced that they will soon drop hosting of bzr > repositories on launchpad.net. I need to get a copy of all the branches > I'd like to keep and migrate them to savannah.
Then the first thing to do for you is to get those branches (if not yet). Uploading them to Savannah should be quite easy (unless multiple repositories are needed). > > > 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. > > > > Is the 'bazaar' group a Unix user group or a Savannah user group? We might > be able to create a group called something like 'bzr-dev' if we need > something specifically for bzr development. I meant a Savannah group, https://savannah.nongnu.org/p/bazaar. > >From what they are saying in the discussion forum[*] it sounds like > Canonical doesn't plan to do any further development or support of Bazaar. > So they might be amenable to assigning the copyright to the FSF. That > could simplify license adjustments like moving to GPL 3+, if desired. Moving to GPLv3+ doesn't require an assignment, just a non-trivial contribution under GPLv3+ and updating the license notices. You didn't assign your future work to Canonical, did you?
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