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how to set it up and configure it.
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Of the many workflows supported by Bazaar, the one adopted for Bazaar
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development itself is known as "Decentralized with automatic gatekeeper".
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To repeat the explanation of this given on
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http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/Workflows:
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In this workflow, each developer has their own branch or
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branches, plus read-only access to the mainline. A software gatekeeper
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(e.g. PQM) has commit rights to the main branch. When a developer wants
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their work merged, they request the gatekeeper to merge it. The gatekeeper
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does a merge, a compile, and runs the test suite. If the code passes, it
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is merged into the mainline.
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In a nutshell, here's the overall submission process:
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#. get your work ready (including review except for trivial changes)
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#. push to a public location
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#. ask PQM to merge from that location
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At present, PQM always takes the changes to merge from a branch
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at a URL that can be read by it. For Bazaar, that means a public,
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As a result, the following things are needed to use PQM for submissions:
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#. A publicly available web server
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#. Your OpenPGP key registered with PQM (contact RobertCollins for this)
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#. The PQM plugin installed and configured (not strictly required but
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Selecting a Public Branch Location
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If you don't have your own web server running, branches can always be
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pushed to Launchpad. Here's the process for doing that:
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Depending on your location throughout the world and the size of your
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repository though, it is often quicker to use an alternative public
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location to Launchpad, particularly if you can set up your own repo and
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push into that. By using an existing repo, push only needs to send the
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changes, instead of the complete repository every time. Note that it is
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easy to register branches in other locations with Launchpad so no benefits
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are lost by going this way.
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For Canonical staff, http://people.ubuntu.com/~<user>/ is one
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suggestion for public http branches. Contact your manager for information
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on accessing this system if required.
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It should also be noted that best practice in this area is subject to
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change as things evolve. For example, once the Bazaar smart server on
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Launchpad supports server-side branching, the performance situation will
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be very different to what it is now (Jun 2007).
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Configuring the PQM Plug-In
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While not strictly required, the PQM plugin automates a few things and
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reduces the chance of error. Before looking at the plugin, it helps to
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understand a little more how PQM operates. Basically, PQM requires an
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email indicating what you want it to do. The email typically looks like
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star-merge source-branch target-branch
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star-merge http://bzr.arbash-meinel.com/branches/bzr/jam-integration http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/bzr.dev
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Note that the command needs to be on one line. The subject of the email
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will be used for the commit message. The email also needs to be ``gpg``
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signed with a key that PQM accepts.
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The advantages of using the PQM plugin are:
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#. You can use the config policies to make it easy to set up public
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branches, so you don't have to ever type the full paths you want to merge
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#. It checks to make sure the public branch last revision matches the
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local last revision so you are submitting what you think you are.
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#. It uses the same public_branch and smtp sending settings as bzr-email,
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so if you have one set up, you have the other mostly set up.
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#. Thunderbird refuses to not wrap lines, and request lines are usually
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pretty long (you have 2 long URLs in there).
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Here are sample configuration settings for the PQM plugin. Here are the
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lines in bazaar.conf::
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email = Joe Smith <joe.smith@internode.on.net>
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smtp_server=mail.internode.on.net:25
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And here are the lines in ``locations.conf`` (or ``branch.conf`` for
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dirstate-tags branches)::
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[/home/joe/bzr/my-integration]
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push_location = sftp://joe-smith@bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Ejoe-smith/bzr/my-integration/
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push_location:policy = norecurse
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public_branch = http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~joe-smith/bzr/my-integration/
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public_branch:policy = appendpath
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pqm_email = Bazaar PQM <pqm@bazaar-vcs.org>
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pqm_branch = http://bazaar-vcs.org/bzr/bzr.dev
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Note that the push settings will be added by the first ``push`` on
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a branch. Indeed the preferred way to generate the lines above is to use
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``push`` with an argument, then copy-and-paste the other lines into
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Here is one possible recipe once the above environment is set up:
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#. pull bzr.dev => my-integration
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#. merge patch => my-integration
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#. fix up any final merge conflicts (NEWS being the big killer here).
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The ``push`` step is not required if ``my-integration`` is a checkout of
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Because of defaults, you can type a single message into commit and
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pqm-commit will reuse that.
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Tracking Change Acceptance
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The web interface to PQM is https://pqm.bazaar-vcs.org/. After submitting
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a change, you can visit this URL to confirm it was received and placed in
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When PQM completes processing a change, an email is sent to you with the
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Planning Releases
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