[Python-Dev] sprints and pushes

[Terry Reedy]

On 3/23/2011 9:36 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> That's where the D in DVCS comes in.  It's a new world, friends.  All
> you need to do is bring a $50 wireless router to the sprint, and have
> some volunteer set up a shared repo for the sprinters.  Then some
> volunteer *later* runs the tests and pilots the patches into the
> public repo.  Where's the latency?
>
> N.B.  The repo admin and test-running volunteers can be non-coders.
> In fact, the tests can be running concurrently (gives those non-coders
> an excuse to attend sprints!), but nobody need wait for the results.

If the push-target is a clone at, for instance, hg.python, the tester 
does not even need to be at the sprint site. Skype can be used for 
occasional feedback to authors.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy