[Python-Dev] Thoughts fresh after EuroPython

[Steve Holden]

On 7/27/2010 11:02 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:57:22 +0200
> Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>> Am 27.07.2010 04:43, schrieb Terry Reedy:
>>> On 7/26/2010 5:15 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sure PyPI is part of the ecosystem.  But so are quite a lot of other tools,
>>>> and none of them are tracked in bugs.python.org.  (This is also the case
>>>> for the website.)  I'd really like bugs.python.org to remain a tracker for
>>>> what we ship as the CPython distribution, and nothing else.  There's enough
>>>> content in there already.
>>>
>>> How about one other tracker, say bugs.python/org/tools (or projects, or 
>>> ???) for everything else: pypi, distribute2 (until part of release), web 
>>> site, sandbox projects? It would have to be taught how to turn revxxxx + 
>>> component into a link to the appropriate repository.
>>
>> I still think that one tracker per project/site is the better way.
> 
> Only if they have similar look and feel, and don't require you to
> register the same login N times, though.
> 
Is it really time to give devs a distributed identity good for a range
of systems? Sounds like a potentially hairy management task.

regards
 Steve
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