On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 15:31 +0200, Jochen Theodorou wrote:

> http://bazaar-vcs.org/TortoiseBzr points to 
> https://code.launchpad.net/~amduser29/tortoisebzr/trunk, which has the 
> last activity in August 2007. Of course it is now clear to me, that 
> https://code.launchpad.net/~tortoisebzr-developers/tortoisebzr/tbzr2-proto 
> is the right branch... but shouldn't that be corrected on 
> http://bazaar-vcs.org/TortoiseBzr? Because it is misleading

I have emailed the Bazaar list to ask that "something be done" to avoid
unfortunately bad advertising.

> > Branches can be anywhere.  Usually though they are accessible either
> > over SSH or HTTP(S).  So for strictly controlled access branches you use
> > the SSH access, HTTP gives public read-only access, and HTTPS+WebvDAV
> > gives you controlled writeable access.
> > 
> > Launchpad (for Bazaar), GitHub (for Git), Savannah (Bazaar, Mercurial or
> > Git) all provide branch/repository hosting.  Hopefully soon so will
> > Codehaus.
> > 
> > Doing things with email and patch queues is another way instead of
> > accessing .
> 
> ah, ok.. I think using ssh is not realistic. And not every developer can 
> host a webserver for usage with a DCVS.

For a FOSS project generally SSH is definitely a bad idea but for
branches to be shared but kept private it is great -- saves having to
run a Web server.  And indeed is far more secure than using HTTPS and
WebDAV since you can have accounts with no passwords but SSH key access.

Launchpad, GitHub, etc. show the way Codehaus, SourceForge, RubyForge,
etc. will be heading so that everyone can have branches but not host
them on their own servers that they do not have :-)

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