-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm happy to announce that we now have available for public consumption, the Python source code for 2.5, 2.6 and 3.0 available under the Bazaar distributed version control system.
The current Subversion repository is still the master copy of the source code. We have not made a decision to move to Bazaar officially, nor have we made a decision to even move off of Subversion. We're making these branches available exactly so that you, the Python developer community, can kick the tires and see if it makes sense to move to a different vcs. Nothing will happen until after the Python 2.6/3.0 releases anyway. All the gory details are documented here: http://www.python.org/dev/bazaar These branches are available both for core Python developers with commit privileges, and the wider world of developers without commit privileges. It's this latter group that I think will find the most compelling immediate benefit from using Bazaar, because they will no longer need to maintain their own changes using a mass of patch files. For more information on Bazaar in general, see: http://bazaar-vcs.org You will probably be most interested in the Bazaar mirrors of the Subversion master repository. We have a cron job that updates Bazaar from Subversion every 15 minutes. It is also possible to push changes made in your Bazaar branches into the Subversion master, so you can keep reasonably up-to-date and interact with the Python source code solely via Bazaar. Please let me know if you have any questions or anything in the docs referenced above aren't clear. I know I need to document the Bazaar- >Subversion workflow in more detail. Huge thanks go out especially to Thomas Wouters who sprinted with me yesterday on getting the whole infrastructure up and running. Thanks also to Martin v. Loewis, Sean Reifschneider, and the folks here at Pycon from the Bazaar project, Ian, Andrew, John, and Edwin. Enjoy, - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBR+K+H3EjvBPtnXfVAQL6bwP/d0XKx0mRPgzdOD6zCPwwRl8y2kxWV9Vl zVwN07cK8IlwMa9M470MsERuXuD8hmeXnPgnrUcrX9HciwldmY8C33t0f8GaOk1J iD4Od1midlIaJJiMd+JcFk9NbX3Rwc4HMj3s8jKjjdlGrFe77ei9DCZ/HMl/iG5K fyyjXo4HLEE= =Gcjq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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