Re: Git transition checklist

[Jorgen Schaefer]

On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 21:32:31 +0100
David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Oh look, what great timing:
> >
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2014q1/075790.html
> >
> >    I've forked Bazaar, as bzr3, in order to move the codebase to
> > Python 3.x and remove things no longer required to make that effort
> > easier.
> >
> > Not dead, only sleeping?
> 
> How is it not dead if a _fork_ appears appropriate for supporting the
> current Python version?

And the fork is happening because it is easier to port bzr to py3 than
to port launchpad to git. To quote the author of that fork in the
Google Plus discussion linked from that post:

| If launchpad start to support git bzr will be either totally obsolete
| or totally replaced by bzr-with-native-git support. In either case,
| now the problem is python2 is getting deprecated and I still rely on
| bzr at work.

Regards,
Jorgen