I think anything of the distributed vcs variety will be found to be a wonderful upgrade from SVN. I mostly use git these days. Ccoming from SVN, I have plenty of tales to tell of how my butt has been saved by the likes of git's branch, rebase, pull, push, stash, revert, and other handy commands (git-merge-octopus, anyone?).
Git has a lot of history behind it and a number of handy utilities and helper apps abound (like GitX for Mac). However, I know that hg & bzr are out there, too, and I won't even attempt to make any disparaging remarks. I've read enough of both to think that maintaining a project with them would still be a sufficient improvement from SVN. I think the choice of project management is perhaps more important than the tool that manages the code. So, the big contenders there that I'm aware of are continuing with Trac (which has a git plugin & hg plugin), or going the routes of something like github, assembla, or launchpad. They all have their strengths, I think. Perhaps there is value in askin how Satchmo plans to continue with regards to its project image. I think Satchmo could use a bit of branding work. If Satchmo's code was moved over to a service like those mentioned above, it could provide an opportunity to break satchmoproject.com away from being limited by Trac integration and a bit more freedom to take a stab at defining a brand for Satchmo and redesigning the project's site to focus on the project itself, docs, and other material that is relevant. Code can be limited to a download link for a tar or something, as well as one that points people over to the repo on a hosted service. Either way, +(the answer to life the universe and everything times number of horns on a unicorn times speed of light in furlongs per fortnight) for DVCS. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
