I'm of the opinion that there's no need to address the bug tracker at the same time as move the repo and/or hg->git. I only use hg for scons, git for everything else.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Dirk Bächle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > On 05.01.2016 18:25, Bill Deegan wrote: > >> Not a rumor. ;) >> http://lwn.net/Articles/669924/ >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/150459/focus=150960 >> >> >> > when I read those two threads/articles it doesn't seem to be about "moving > Python to Github"...they're considering (PEP481) to migrate certain > supporting repositories, that don't need a bug tracker and can be used as a > stand-alone repo. > Am I getting this right? > > If yes, this is a different situation than we would have...we still have a > bug tracker to migrate. And so far, everybody who tried to come up with a > proposal about how to do it, while losing no significant data, seems to > have given up on it. Would this change if we move to Github? > > It may be true that a lot of people nowadays simply know how to use "git" > (or maybe they only "think" that they know ;) ), but I can't see a big > boost of new contributors growing from this fact alone. OpenHatch has moved > to Github recently (including their bug tracker) and they're still > struggling and desperately calling for help. Maybe it is the "wrong" > example, but it doesn't seem to be *that* easy. And someone has to do the > migration work...I'd like to see volunteers and their ideas for the > migration first, before supporting this idea. > > I'm not completely opposed to the idea of moving to Github ( and git, > which I also know a bit, at least I "think" I do ;) ), but deep in my heart > I still very much feel like Nick Coghlan (see > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/150459/focus=150960 ) and > think about Mercurial and SCons as part of the Python family. This weighs a > lot in my opinion, so you have to put much more than "convenience" and "I > suspect"s on the other side of the scale to convince me. :) > > So much for my 2c. > > Best regards, > > Dirk > > > _______________________________________________ > Scons-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/scons-dev >
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