Refactoring a project to get stable and trunk branches using bazaar

Question

I'm relatively new to VCS and especially Bazaar so I started my project without using it, using a structure like this

+project_root
     +scripts
         +bin                   # Binaries for easy testing
         +dev                   # Sources root
             +package_folder
             +package_folder
             ...

But I've been told that VCS are the best thing since set theory, so I've tried to put it under Bazaar, using that I've done a

cd scripts/dev
bzr init
bzr add
bzr commit -m "Initial import"

Now (how cool is that) I just bzr commit -m "spam" whenever I feel like it and bzr push when I don't trust my HDD.

But now that I have some stable and distributable code, I have set up a project at launchpad and I'd like to have some trunk branch where I could make unstable commits just to backup and a stable branch for the users to use.

That is to say I'd just have to spawn some command and it will update stable at the current state of trunk when I have a stable version I want to distribute, bundling all intermediate revisions into one.

How can I do this, if possible without refactoring my folder structure, and what should be my project structure on launchpad according to the usuals conventions?

Answer 1

The question is more about Launchpad than bzr.

You can set up your trunk as default branch on launchpad, or you can set up your stable branch as default branch on Launchpad. Open the series page for your project:

https://launchpad.net/PROJECT/+series

Click on trunk series. You should be able to select the branch you want to be associated with trunk series. https://launchpad.net/PROJECT/trunk/+edit Let's select your trunk here.

Now you should return to series page and create a new series let's call it "stable". https://launchpad.net/PROJECT/+addseries

For stable series you should select another branch, let's select your stable branch.

So now, when you or your users will use short URL like lp:PROJECT then it will access your trunk branch. If another short URL will be used: lp:PROJECT/stable then it will access your stable branch.

lp:PROJECT/XXX will access the branch associated with XXX series.