On 3/5/07, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/5/07, Giovanni Bajo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 05/03/2007 19.46, A.M. Kuchling wrote: > > > > > At PyCon, there was general agreement that exposing a read-only > > > Bazaar/Mercurial/git/whatever version of the repository wouldn't be > > > too much effort, and might make things easier for external people > > > developing patches. > > > > I really believe this is just a red herring, pushed by some SCM wonk. The > > problem with patch submission has absolutely *nothing* to do with tools. Do > > we > > have any evidence that new developers are getting frustrated because they > > can't handle their patches well enough with the current tools? > [snip] > > Plus it's just handy sometimes to be able to do commits when you lack > network access.
Seconded. I don't know how much it impacts new developers, but I know I get frustrated because of this. Collin Winter _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com