We have a new server for TurboGears.org, and Alberto asked if we could host ToscaWidgets.org there as well.
This seemed like a good idea to everybody responsible to the server, but I raised the idea of switching TG2 to mercurial in a private e-mail to the parties involved. Obviously this is something that we should all talk about on the mailing list before we even think seriously about making a switch in our core development processes. So, here's my personal thinking so far: 1) Alberto's got a neat setup on the toscawidgets site, where mercurial, trac, and everything are all part of a single system with a single username/password. 2) Alberto's setup would allow us to host trac sites for projects like silverplate, or tg.ext.geo with their own mercurial repositories very easily. 3) Mecurial's main advantages are easy branching/merging and the ability to do commits offline 4) Pylons, Beaker, Routes, WebHelpers, and many other upstream projects already use mercurial. Chris Arent has brought up a couple of potential issues which we need to think through: 1) Documentation would need to change 2) We would have to help people learn mercurial 3) Mercurial would need to be easy to install on all our target platforms I think that there are binary installers for OS X and windows, and RPM's and debs for all the major linux platforms. And mercurial is python, so if you have all the nessisary stuff easy_install might even work too, though it appears from Chris's e-mail to the list that it might not always work. There's a pretty good introduction to distributed version control at: http://betterexplained.com/articles/intro-to-distributed-version-control-illustrated/ I'm sure there are some other issues surrounding the move to a more distributed model. In fact, to prime the pump of that discussion, here's a very old blog post by Ian Bicking explainining why he's not 100% sold on the distributed model. http://blog.ianbicking.org/distributed-vs-centralized-scm.html -- Mark Ramm-Christensen email: mark at compoundthinking dot com blog: www.compoundthinking.com/blog --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" 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/turbogears-trunk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
