Bazaar Developer Document Catalog

Overall developer documentation

Developer Guide
Architectural Overview — describes some of the most important classes and concepts.
bzrlib API reference (external link) — automatically generated API reference information
Integrating with Bazaar (wiki) — a guide for writing Python programs that work with Bazaar.
Revision Properties — An application can set arbitrary per-revision key/value pairs to store app-specific data.
Testing — Guide to writing tests for Bazaar.
Writing plugins (wiki) — specific advice on writing Bazaar plugins.

The Bazaar Development Cycle — The monthly development cycle and how to run it.
Releasing Bazaar — Checklist to make a release of Bazaar.
Managing the Bazaar PPA — Packaging Bazaar for Ubuntu.
Giving back (wiki) — How to get your changes to Bazaar integrated into a release.
Profiling notes — Instructions on how to profile bzr code and visualize the results.
EC2 resources — A team resource for Windows packaging and testing, and Ubuntu testing.
Tracking Bugs in Bazaar — How we use the bug tracker.

Performance roadmap — The roadmap for fixing performance in bzr over the next few releases.
Co-located branches — Planned(?) support for storing multiple branches in one file-system directory.
Bazaar Windows Shell Extension Options — Implmentation strategy for Bazaar Windows Shell Extensions, aka TortoiseBzr.
CHK Optimized index

API versioning — bzrlib API versioning.
Apport error reporting — Capture data to report bugs.
Authentication ring — Configuring authentication.
Bundles — All about bzr bundles.
Container format — Notes on a container format for streaming and storing Bazaar data.
Groupcompress — Notes on the compression technology used in CHK repositories.
Indices — The index facilities available within bzrlib.
Inventories — Tree shape abstraction.
LCA merge — A nice new merge algorithm.
Network protocol — Custom network protocol.
Plugin APIs — APIs plugins should use.
Repositories — What repositories do and are used for.
Repository stream — Notes on streaming data for repositories (a layer above the container format).
Integration Guide — A guide to integrate bzrlib into any python application.
Bazaar and case-insensitive file systems — How Bazaar operates on case-insensitive file systems such as commonly found on Windows, USB sticks, etc.
Development repository formats — How to work with repository formats that are still under development. Contains instructions for those implementing new formats, of course, but also for (bleeding-edge) end users of those formats.

BTree Index Prefetch — How bzr decides to pre-read extra nodes in the btree index.
Computing last_modified values for inventory entries
Content filtering
LCA Tree Merging — Merging tree-shape when there is not a single unique ancestor (criss-cross merge).