AFAICT, everything is now setup to actually switch to subversion. The infrastructure is complete, the conversion procedure is complete, and Guido pronounced that the migration could happen. One open issue is where to do the hosting: whether to pay a commercial hosting company (i.e. wush.net), or whether to let it be volunteer-hosted on svn.python.org. Guido was undecided, like several other developers; the majority of the rest apparently was in favour of trying it on svn.python.org. Anthony Baxter specifically told me that he would now be fine with hosting it on svn.python.org as it gives us more control. If it doesn't work out, we can still go to a commercial hoster. So I would like to start a conversion in the near future. One complication apparently is that SF doesn't manage to create nightly CVS tarballs anymore; the one I just got is 5 days old. So we would submit a support request that they manually trigger tarball generation to shorten the freeze period. If people want to test the installation before the switch happens, this would be the time to do it. Regards, Martin