Re: bzr send workflow (Was: Locks on the Bzr repository)

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> wrote:
> Bojan Nikolic writes:
>
>  > As already much discussed, the problems people are experiencing are
>  > basically due to many people trying to write (in some way) to the
>  > same sftp://bzr.sv.gnu.org/srv/bzr/emacs/trunk/ location via the
>  > dumb sftp protocol.
>  >
>  > There are many ways around this, but one I did not see mentioned
>  > (maybe I missed it) is using the bzr send command to send merge
>  > "bundles" via email. This is the way bzr development itself worked
>  > while I followed it, and I've used it on some of my own projects
>  > too. I was always very impressed how well it worked.
>
> I don't think this helps much.  The underlying problem for Emacs (and
> other bzr-based projects on Savannah) is that Savannah doesn't want to
> allow bzr+ssh until the Savannah admins understand the security
> implications.  The Bazaar development workflow involves at least one
> separate server application not yet available on Savannah (the pqm
> Patch Queue Manager), and I can't imagine that installing that would
> be any easier than upgrading already installed software to use a smart
> server over ssh.


Is moving to Launchpad an option?