bzr-whatnow: Workflow wizard/helper
One of the problems that often come up when people switch to Bazaar is the very modular workflow system.
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In order to address this problem, two features are proposed in this blueprint.
1) bzr whatnow
bzr whatnow adds a command (likely in bzrtools at first) that will query the current environment and provide inline help on the user's workflow depending on local changes, so on. Some sort of "What should I do now?" wizard.
Sample use case:
adys$~/myproject: bzr whatnow
You are on a centralized partner workflow. You currently have no uncommitted changes, but your 6 most recent commits have not been pushed. Once you are done, you should push your changes with bzr push.
Setting up the workflow is done on first whatnow run in a project, and/or with a command such as bzr whatnow --setworkflow. This should pop up a list of workflows with a one-line description:
adys$~/myproject: bzr whatnow
No workflow has been set.
Choose which description fits your current workflow best:
[1] solo: I am alone on this project, tracking changes locally.
[2] partner: ...
This may not be entirely doable by only querying the local environment. In which case it could query the remote environment, or even ask the user for input on what they want to do.
2) bzr help workflows
bzr help workflows is a help item on workflows which would basically mirror the current wiki online workflow tutorial. It would work like bzr help workflows centralized-
This feature can be implemented aside of bzr whatnow and there shouldn't be much to do, apart from rewriting the wiki page into the required help format.
Blueprint information
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- Not started
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