[Python-Dev] migration away from SourceForge?

Barry Warsaw barry@python.org
Sun, 13 Apr 2003 00:15:55 -0400


On Saturday, April 12, 2003, at 09:55 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
> Is it time to think seriously about moving away from SourceForge?  
> Their cvs
> performance seems to be getting worse by the day.  Bug updates also 
> seem to
> fail periodically in a fashion that suggests system overload.  I 
> presume the
> parent company (is that still VA Linux?) is in dire enough financial 
> straits
> that it can't afford to upgrade its infrastructure enough to meet the
> increased demand.
>
> It seems we mostly need a CVS repository and a bug tracker.  Is RoundUp
> close enough to fill the bug tracking bill?  What options are 
> available for
> CVS hosting?

Perhaps we should look into running the GForge code on a python.org
machine?

http://gforge.org

-Barry