On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:26:12 -0700 Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
As I said, quick-and-dirty. It will take discussion to decide what we want to ask non-committers to do,
I don't think we have to ask them to do anything special, as long as they can submit their contributions under the form of a patch. Whether they use named branches, separate clones, mercurial queues, the pbranch extension, or even the basic hg-as-an-svn-synonym workflow you suggested should be none of our business, IMO. A DVCS allows non-committers to manage (augment, fix, synchronize) their patches more easily until they get committed. I don't think it will change the committers' work a lot, though. I don't know how Mercurial could make the task of committing an outsider's patch significantly simpler. Regards Antoine.