Le mercredi 17 mars 2010 à 23:02 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" a écrit :
My expectation is that the release process won't change in this respect after the switch to Mercurial. We will continue to freeze the maintenance branch for releases, because everything else is too tedious for the release manager.
E.g. let's assume the proposal would be to create a clone of the repository for the release branch: the time it takes to create a clone is too large to make it acceptable for the release manager to wait for that to complete.
Too large? It should take a couple of minutes at most. By the way, the "official" mirror doesn't seem to work here:
hg clone -v http://hg.python.org/cpython/ destination directory: cpython requesting all changes abandon : HTTP Error 414: Request-URI Too Large