Comment 2 for bug 164790

Advertising lp: may well benefit Launchpad but does not benefit Bazaar, which is the point of the exercise.

There a a great many people who are evaluating Bazaar; establishing confidence for such people is a high priority. If Launchpad were to use bzr:// this would lend credence to the fact that the Bazaar server is a reliable piece of engineering.

Also, there is the fact that lp: is not a URL - bzr:// is the protocol with the registered IANA port.

As for getting bzr+http working, that has stymied my team as well. More important would be having it work transparently (see bug 132643 for further) because there will continue to be a great number of http:// URLs advertised for some time to come, and I agree that making the experience for people who "accidentally" use such URLs as optimal as possible is in everyone's best interest.

AfC