[Antoine Pitrou]
[Tarek Ziadé]
I would like to propose a policy for hg.python.org, based on mercurial queues + bugs.python.org, and I would like to contribute a small guide about it in python.org/dev.
Sounds good. We can probably make mq optional, since regular diffs would work as well (except that they wouldn't contain the original committer name, but that isn't different from what we have today).
Agreed. The policy can just require patches and thus let people choose their local workflow (many commits in a named branch/bookmark/pbranch and then diff, MQ for moar power, or just edit things to get a diff without using a fancy command (like now)). The policy should say something about authorship attribution. Mercurial-made diffs contain the user name in a special comment which is used by hg import, plain diffs can be applied with patch and then committed with “hg commit --user "Bill <bill@example.org>"“, and if a patch is edited before commit, then use the current style (core dev as committer, original patch author in the commit message). First-class authorship acknowledgment is a nice feature of DVCSes. The policy should also allow pulling from another repo if it contains changesets that aren’t crufty. In that case, a pusher (new name for a svn committer) can just pull from Bill and push to the main repo, adding extra export-to-patch import-from-patch steps is unnecessary. Cheers