On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote: ..
A quick search found the following message by Dirkjan, but it is likely earlier messages on the subject had been posted too: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-July/090325.html
No wonder I missed that. I assume you are referring to this part of a multi-page post:
"""
- Get agreement on branch strategy and branch processing (list of branches + proposed handling at http://hg.python.org/pymigr/file/tip/all-branches.txt) <--- PLEASE REVIEW """
Even now, this does not sound to me like "WARNING: We are going to drop substantial chunks of history during hg migration. If you want to see the history of work you did in your feature branches preserved, please speak up."
By the way, the "pymigr" repository where the "all-branches.txt" file is stored is now only accessible through the ssh:// URLs, as someone complained that unmangled e-mail addresses of former committers were given out by the Web UI (in the "author-map" file).
How do I access this file now? I tried
$ hg cat ssh://hg@hg.python.org/pymigr/file/tip/all-branches.txt ssh:/hg@hg.python.org/pymigr/file/tip/all-branches.txt: No such file in rev 39047f8bd1d1
Regardless, since Alexander's previous work was in the sandbox repo (not the python repo),
See issue7989 for the details on how Lib/datetime.py was developed.
I don't think it would have been possible to integrate it during the hg migration.
Since I understand that the current plan is to preserve read-only SVN repository indefinitely, I don't think anything needs to be done other than making tracker smarter a Martin suggested. However, if maintaining an SVN server becomes a burden, maybe the complete SVN history should be converted to an Hg instance using some lossless process.