[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration: help needed

["Martin v. Löwis"]

In this thread, I'd like to collect things that ought to be done
but where Dirkjan has indicated that he would prefer if somebody else
did it.

So far, I have only one item: build identification. If you want to work
on this, please either provide a patch (for trunk and/or py3k), or
(if you are a committer) create a subversion branch.

It seems that Barry and I agree that for the maintenance branches,
sys.subversion should be frozen, so we need actually two sets of
patches: one that removes sys.subversion entirely, and the other that
freezes the branch to the respective one, and freezes the subversion
revision to None.

Of course, it seems that the actual representation of branches hasn't
been determined yet, so the build process integration may need to be
changed if named branches aren't going to be used in the end.

Anybody working on this should have good knowledge of the Python source
code, Mercurial, and either autoconf or Visual Studio (preferably both).

Regards,
Martin