Mathieu Leduc-Hamel wrote: > To continue the discussion about a rewrite or a cleanup of the Pypi > codebase, I'm from Montreal-Python usergroup and I'm say that yes at the > first the current codebase of pypi seem to be very unclear and difficult to > maintain. > > But it's not an impossible mission and we are currently in the process of: > > - Adding functional test. The test coverage is now around 40% percent. > - When we'll reach a more complete coverage, we want to replace the psycopg > api by SQLAlchemy > - Replace many manual manipulation of the metadata by a more robust and > straightforward way of dealing with (distutils2 might be the option there) > > At first I was thinking about rewriting everything using the chishop project > (an implementation of PyPi using django). But having the control of the code > source and not dependent of any framework is maybe a better idea. > > More than, despite the frequent outage, pypi is working today, then just a > modernization of code base seem to be best idea. > > By the wat, after a code review of tarek, a very useful thing might be to > find a better way to deal and implement contributions coming from community. > Right now Tarek is responsible of making the link between our effert and the > work of Martin but we don't have any official public mirror of the source > code and any roadmap.
You should be able to get access to the Python sandbox repository and add your project there: http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/ If that's not an option, I'd suggest you have a look at one of the other public repo sites such as launchpad. Note that working on PyPI needs a somewhat different development approach since any changes will be run on a live system. In my experience the best way to do this is by gradually changing things (rather than introduce big structural changes such as using SA instead of a native adapter) and keeping a close eye on the log files for any problems. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jun 15 2010) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ 2010-07-19: EuroPython 2010, Birmingham, UK 33 days to go ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
