[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness (was: Taking over the Mercurial Migration)

[C. Titus Brown]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 09:31:13AM -0500, Daniel Stutzbach wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 7:52 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > 4. Even if I make patch in my Mercurial clone - you still can't pull
> > it and I have to attach it to tracker. No gain.
> >
> 
> Was there ever any discussion about hosting the central repository on a site
> such as bitbucket or github?  I tried searching the python-dev archives but
> was unable to find much.

We discussed this briefly at the Python language summit at PyCon '10, the
discussion intersected and/or merged with the whole infrastructure discussion,
got borg-ified by that, and I think discussions continue(d) on pydotorg-www in
general.

Personally I think it makes a great deal of sense to pay someone to manage
this for us, but there were concerns about customizability and control that
warrant further investigation.  Since it's DVCS, it's much easier to change
the "official" repo, but it still incurs costs in terms of documentation,
workflow changes, etc.

cheers,
--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu