Developer Collaboration - Canonical launches Bazaar based on Python

[osKanpur]

Canonical has released the stable version of Bazaar - A Distributed
Software Version control system for distributed teams of innovative
and open source, modern community based software development.
Bazaar 1.0 has been written in Python software language - a software
language that is much in demand and commands a lot of respect in the
Open Software community - which sadly is lacking in India presently,
even though Indian software majors have garnered immense amounts of
global outsourcing profits — but for strategic reasons, are not very
happy to promote the spread of free and open source software among
Indian schools, colleges and universities due to fear of disturbing
their monopolies and outsourcing business models.
Among the features of BAZAAR are :
1. Software developers who are familiar with ECLIPSE Software
development platform, can begin to be very productive as they can
learn and use BAZAAR easily and in short learning curve.
2. It is based on stable Python API and is compatible with Python
versions 2.4 and above. It already has a set of about 20 Plugins,
available for immediate use by communities of software developers.
3. No need for coordination with central code base as Commits can be
made independently.
4. Features and fixes can be developed in independent branches and
merged into main development trunk at any time. This feature is ideal
for teaching distributed software development to students in remote
locations of India.
5. Software development can be done in creative models, whether as
creative and intelligent individual developers, who contribute more
code than others, or as cooperating software teams.
6. Dual level of support is available for the GNU GPL licensed Bazaar
as users can buy commercial support, or if their software developers
and teams are really world class, they can use freely available and
generous community support.
More information : http://www.ubuntu.com/news/bazaar-v1-release