BzrUI
Launchpad Entry: https://launchpad.net/products/olive/+spec/bzr-ui
Created: 2006-05-27 by SzilveszterFarkas
Contributors: SzilveszterFarkas
Packages affected:
Summary
This specification discusses implementing an integrated graphical user interface for the [http://bazaar-vcs.org Bazaar-NG] distributed version control system.
Rationale
Providing a user-friendly frontend for source management. This will be achieved by following the [http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/ GNOME Human Interface Guidelines].
Use cases
Scope
The application will provide the following features:
- a backend that could be used by other frontends (e.g. Qt)
- a GTK frontend with support for the following bzr commands: init, branch, add, remove, mv, ignore, diff, merge, commit, uncommit, log, check, push, pull, export, conflicts, info, mkdir, nick, revno, version, whoami
- binary packages for Debian/Ubuntu
Design
The strings appearing in the application should be translatable (via Rosetta). The interface will probably look like [http://rapidsvn.tigris.org RapidSVN].
Implementation
Python is preferred as programming language, so bzr's native features could be used (bzrlib). The interface will be designed using Glade and supported by the PyGTK bindings.
SoC acceptance criteria
- Implemented the features listed in the Scope section
- Assuming a good code quality (it means a usable application)
Outstanding issues