[Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Python source code on Bazaar vcs

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

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> I'm happy to announce that we now have available for public
> consumption, the Python source code for 2.5, 2.6 and 3.0 available
> under the Bazaar distributed version control system.
>
> The current Subversion repository is still the master copy of the
> source code.  We have not made a decision to move to Bazaar
> officially, nor have we made a decision to even move off of
> Subversion.  We're making these branches available exactly so that
> you, the Python developer community, can kick the tires and see if it
> makes sense to move to a different vcs.  Nothing will happen until
> after the Python 2.6/3.0 releases anyway.
>
> All the gory details are documented here:
>
>     http://www.python.org/dev/bazaar
>
> These branches are available both for core Python developers with
> commit privileges, and the wider world of developers without commit
> privileges.  It's this latter group that I think will find the most
> compelling immediate benefit from using Bazaar, because they will no
> longer need to maintain their own changes using a mass of patch files.
>
> For more information on Bazaar in general, see:
>
>     http://bazaar-vcs.org
>
> You will probably be most interested in the Bazaar mirrors of the
> Subversion master repository.  We have a cron job that updates Bazaar
> from Subversion every 15 minutes.  It is also possible to push changes
> made in your Bazaar branches into the Subversion master, so you can
> keep reasonably up-to-date and interact with the Python source code
> solely via Bazaar.

Once you've pushed the branches, is there a way to remove them?

>
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions or anything in the docs
> referenced above aren't clear.  I know I need to document the Bazaar-
>  >Subversion workflow in more detail.
>
> Huge thanks go out especially to Thomas Wouters who sprinted with me
> yesterday on getting the whole infrastructure up and running.  Thanks
> also to Martin v. Loewis, Sean Reifschneider, and the folks here at
> Pycon from the Bazaar project, Ian, Andrew, John, and Edwin.
>
> Enjoy,
> - -Barry
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Cheers,
Benjamin Peterson
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