On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 06:14, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: >> On Thursday 30 October 2008, Victor Stinner wrote: >>>> One of the reasons why I'm very keen on us moving to a distributed >>>> version control system is to help break the logjam on core developers. >>> Yeah, exactly :-) Does anyone already maintain a distributed tree? >>> Mercurial, GIT, anything else? >> >> Bazaar. Take a look at the developers' pages on python.org, they mention that >> a BZR checkout is available. I know that it works (though the initial >> checkout is glacially slow) but I don't know what "official" support it has >> or what is planned with it. > > It's kept up to date, and will eventually move to a more complete DVCS > experiment (there are also mercurial and git mirrors being maintained, > but they haven't been linked from python.org yet - a trawl through the > python-dev archives should turn up the links to the URLs). > > The PSF's infrastructure committee isn't that big though (and all > volunteers), and switching version control systems isn't exactly easy > (even the migration from Sourceforge CVS to python.org SVN took quite a > bit of effort from key people). The migration of all our regular > workflows from the familiar centralised VCS style to a DVCS style of > development promises to be pretty disruptive in the short term, no > matter how beneficial it will be in the long run. > > That said, with the tracker migration from Sourceforge to Roundup behind > us, and a hopefully successful 3.0 release not too far away, it's > probably time to start giving the idea more serious thought. > > Ultimately, any complete plan for migration from SVN to a DVCS will > likely need to come in the form of a meta-PEP like the one MvL wrote to > justify and document the migration from CVS to SVN: > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0347/ >
I have actually started such a PEP, so this is being worked on. -Brett _______________________________________________ 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
