MySQL migrates to Bazaar!
This just in, MySQL has migrated from BitKeeper to Bazaar. They also seem to be using Launchpad quite extensively, and have already updated their installation from source instructions.
Not only is it a big user base for Bazaar, but yet another move from Closed Source to Open Source software.
Congratulations to all the Canonical folks to helped with the move (I hear John and Elliot had a lot to do with it in particular), and welcome MySQLers 
Bazaar 1.4 released
The 1.4 release of Bazaar includes handy improvements to the speed of log and status, new options for several commands, improved documentation, and better hooks, including initial code for server-side hooks. A number of bugs have been fixed, particularly in interoperability between different formats or different releases of Bazaar over there network. There's been substantial internal work in both the repository and network code to enable new features and faster performance.
You can check out the full changelog at: https://launchpad.net/bzr/1.4/1.4/
And download it at the usual location: http://bazaar-vcs.org/Download
Shell History
malbisetti@pentaserv:~/red_teatral$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head
292 bzr
51 cd
29 tail
25 ls
24 exit
17 screen
15 su
9 vim
6 rm
6 cat
Right, I might be using bzr a bit too much...
Couldn’t attend the sprint? You can still help!
It occurred to me that many people couldn't attend the last bzr sprint, and having missed out on other conferences myself, I know how discouraging it can be left out of the action
Anyway, a great wiki page was setup with everything that was discussed, and who's going to work on what, so feel free to sign up yourself to the bits you are interested, and get in touch with the rest of the folks to coordinate efforts.
Bazaar sprint concludes
So, the sprint is over.
It's been a very long week, and looking back at it it seems impossible to me that so many things happened and got done in just 5 days.
This has been the first bazaar sprint I've attended, so my expectations weren't based on anything else than my imagination.
Basically, I thought I would meet very intelligent people who had a a tons of experience with the project, and that knew exactly what had to be done and how to do it.
It wasn't quite like that.
There where 16 of us in total, which is a pretty large crowd for such a specific piece of software like versioning control, and everyone was just embarrassingly smart. What was a surprise was how well us community folks where integrated into the project as a whole, on the decision making aspects and on even on taking responsibility for ideas being put in place appropriately. Everyone was extremely helpful with just about anything, and I've personally learned so much in such a small time frame, I can't even begin to process it.
Canonical sponsored all our travel and accommodation costs, to the extent that it didn't cost me a single dollar to go across half the world and spend some time discussing, coding, and drinking beer with the same people I hang out on IRC. The four start hotel overlooking the Thames was a bit over the top, but, as you can expect, we didn't complain. I also got to meet people from Launchpad and Ubuntu with whom I've been interacting for the past two years. Many concepts one has over what's commonly denominated "low bandwidth communication" (eg. IRC or email) change a fair bit with some face to face time.
While really tired, I'm really happy with how everything went, and am really excited to start work (and finish!) on some of the many areas I volunteered in.
I suppose this is just a way of thanking everyone for making it possible, and for the hospitality which we where treated with.
beuno@beuno-laptop:~$ bzr rocks
P.S. I'm going to catch up on all the previous days of the sprint, just need some sleep 
Bazaar sprint, day 2
Second day is over (I'm a bit delayed on reporting, yesterday was exhausting).
The current disussions are currently being dumped into the wiki in http://bazaar-vcs.org/SprintLondonMarch08/Brainstorms, so today I'm just going to post some pictures.
This is where we eat breakfast
That would be the Canonical building
Canonical!
Brainstorming
Deciding which are the most important Adoption Blockers
Lunch!
Coding time!