[Catalog-sig] PyPI down again...

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Hi Martin,

Notice that you actually replied to Marc-Andre Lemburg.

>     You should be able to get access to the Python sandbox repository and
>     add your project there:
>
>     http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/
>
>     If that's not an option, I'd suggest you have a look at one of the
>     other public repo sites such as launchpad.
>
> Right now I'm working with Tarek Ziade on a clone of the PyPi repository
> sourcecode on bitbucket, that way, it allowed tarek to keep an eye the
> modifications I made on the source code since double checking any
> changes is very important, as you said, for this type of project.

Most certainly. However, before I add the code to PyPI, I'd review it, 
anyway, so no worries.

Just be prepared to provide the code as separately-reviewable chunks
of modifications.

> That's why I was working to implement a better unit testing coverage. I
> would like to modernize a little bit the source code of pypi cause i
> think in the future there will some major structural changes of the
> code. Having a great test coverage will allow us to change the code and
> be less afraid of making mistakes.

Alternatively, you could start submitting patches.

> Maybe it would be easier to switch to the official mercurial repository
> (hg.python.org <http://hg.python.org>), it would allow a better
> collaboration between everybody who would like to contribute.

I'm not quite sure why that would be. You still couldn't write to the 
repository, could you? So what would be the difference?

Regards,
Martin