I think we should definitely do some changes to how bazaar is handled. Many current packages are unmaintained and broken. And we also have a problem with git, where I cannot set write rights to just bazaar.
So I propose following steps (not immediate, definitely after the 2020.1 release):
- move bazaar out of svn, to github. Maybe even into multiple github projects (probably will end as single bazaar for less often update packages and I expect agile contributors to move theirs packages to separate gits)
- the release process will then pick bazaar packages from gits
- there will be whitelisting process, package will need to compile in posix and win32 to be accepted
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Hello Mirek,
Sounds good : separating maintained code from unmaintained code is important
But having all in one place is also very pratical : if you are searching for some code example you can always search in bazaar and find all sorts of things : good and bad
We will at least need the following if we don't wan't to loose new users :
a home page that lists all the child projects
an 'all-download script (maybe to recreate something like bazaar )
Ideally your whitelisting process should also keep track of last Upp version the project compiled with : just to be able detect kick-out candidates