[Python-Dev] Tracker anonymity

["Martin v. Löwis"]

skip at pobox.com wrote:
> Fine with me.  Is it ready to go though?  If not, what more needs to be
> done?  I was under the assumption that it wasn't ready for prime time and
> solicited inputs on c.l.py in a couple messages yesterday and today.

Primarily, it needs a dedicated operator. Somebody who is willing to get
it done, and somebody who doesn't run away when it is done, but reacts
in a timely manner (similar to what I have been doing with subversion).

So far, nobody has stepped forward. Without such a person, I would be
very hesitant to accept switching, even if the technology was
demonstrable ready and easy to operate.

In addition, the pending technical issues are perhaps deeper than in
the case for subversion. The conversion tool, for subversion, was ready
to go, and nearly perfect (except that I managed to get the time not
increasing monotonically); I'm just not sure what the status of the
roundup conversion tool is (but I do remember that it exists, and
is able to process the data obtained from SF XML export).

One other issue I remember is that the SF redirector replacement is
not implemented: I would expect that python.org/sf/<sf bug id>
will map the SF bug ids into roundup bug ids, and redirect
appropriately; this hasn't been done (to my knowledge).

Regards,
Martin