[Python-Dev] Fwd: Mirroring Python repos to Bitbucket

[Nick Coghlan]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Charles McLaughlin of Atlassian has set up mirrors of the Mercurial repositories hosted on python.org as part of the ongoing infrastructure improvement work. These mirrors will give us a public fail-over repository in the event that hg.python.org goes offline unexpectedly, and also provide features such as RSS feeds of changes for users interested in monitoring the repository passively.

The main advantage of those mirrors to my mind is that it makes it
easy for anyone to clone their own copy of the python.org repos
without having to upload the whole thing to bitbucket themselves. That
makes it easy for people to use a natural Mercurial workflow to
develop and collaborate on patches, even for components other than the
main CPython repo (e.g. the devguide or the benchmark suite).

Cheers,
Nick.

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