Initial table of contents for the Bazaar administrator guide:

• Introduction: administering a Bazaar installation

  • Scope of this guide
  • What you need to run a Bazaar server

• Simple setup: Setting up a central Bazaar server (similar to 5 min guide)

  • Smart server
  • Web-based browsing (e.g. Loggerhead)
  • recommended tools

• Migration: Initial migration

  • legacy VCS -> bzr sync

• Hooks:

• Web browsing: read-only view of branches

• Integration with other tools:

  • PQM
  • Bug trackers
  • Continuous integration tools (e.g. Cruise Control)
  • Bundle Buggy

• Security:

  • Authentication
  • ACL

• Back-up and restore:

• Upgrades:

  • Software upgrades
  • Disk format upgrades
  • Plugin upgrades

• System monitoring:

• Capacity planning tips:

  • Disk management

• Advanced topics:

  • Clustering
  • Multi-site setups

From the whiteboard

* access logs

• who, bzr version, what action, what branch

• ACLs
  • what granularity
  • multiple products, or multiple branches per product
  • limits within tree
  • are ACLs versioned? time based?
  • hooks?
• removing all VFS access
  • push, init
  • deny updating files
• garbage-collecting branches
• upgrading formats
  • resource intensive
  • mass upgrades
• light-weight Bazaar service

  • processes => big memory (-> testing & profiling bzr memory performance)

  • worker pool?
• setting up a central Bazaar server
  • Bazaar itself good
  • web-based browsing
    • docs that are simple
    • recommended tools
• server-side hooks
  • pre-checks (for QA)
  • post-checks (for announcement)
• template plugin for helping central policies
  • be used/enforced client-side
• backups

  • documenting gap between central & distributed

  • how to do while repo in use
  • how to restore
    • locking
    • does restoring dd repo make sense?
• PQM
  • hard to set up
  • needs polish
  • explaining concept
  • explaining how to customise
  • consequences
    • isolation errors
    • bottlenecks
• integrating with other related tools
  • continuous integration
  • bug tracker
• initial migration

• legacy VCS -> bzr sync

• bzr -> bzr sync/mirroring

  • hot backups?
• troubleshooting
  • "What do I do if $KIND become corrupted?"
  • recovery tool?
  • tool for dumping without full data
• disk space management
• FS advice
• admin impact of plugins
  • rollout
• availability