news
Canonical Dropping Bazaar Support from Launchpad
Quoting: Canonical Dropping Bazaar Support from Launchpad - OMG! Ubuntu —
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 a dead-end.
Original:
-
Launchpad News: Phasing out Bazaar code hosting
What is Bazaar code hosting?
Bazaar is a distributed revision control system, originally developed by Canonical. It provides similar functionality compared to the now dominant Git.
Bazaar code hosting is an offering from Launchpad to both provide a Bazaar backend for hosting code, but also a web frontend for browsing the code. The frontend is provided by the Loggerhead application on Launchpad.
Late coverage:
-
Ubuntu's Homegrown Git Alternative bzr is Being Removed from Launchpad
Bazaar, or bzr, is a distributed version control system created by Martin Pool that was later sponsored by Canonical. It's been tightly integrated with Launchpad, Canonical's web-based collaboration platform, serving as the primary version control system for hosting and delivering source code for many Ubuntu-related and open source projects.
However, over the years, it has fallen into a state of disrepair, with development stalled and most of the open source community moving to the more actively maintained Git.