[Python-Dev] Official github mirror for CPython?

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Christian Heimes <christian at python.org>
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>>> > Am 25.07.2013 16:29, schrieb Eli Bendersky:
>>> >> Hi all,
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>>> >> I've been looking for a Github mirror for Python, and found two:
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>>> >> * https://github.com/python-git/python has a lot of
>>> >> forks/watches/starts
>>> >> but seems to be very out of date (last updated 4 years ago)
>>> >> * https://github.com/python-mirror/python doesn't appear to be very
>>> >> popular but is updated daily
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>>> >> Are some of you the owners of these repositories? Should we
>>> >> consolidate
>>> >> to a single "semi-official" mirror?
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>>> > +1
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>>> > Does the PSF have an official account on github? We have one on
>>> > bitbucket...
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>>> I don't remember who runs this, and I thought I was in it (maybe just
>>> on BB), but: https://github.com/python
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>> This appears to be a good place, but it doesn't have an actual mirror
>> (yet?) ;-)
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> Based on the list of people who are members of github.com/python it's as
> official as it's going to get (depends on who of that group owns it).
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> But assuming whomever owns it is okay with hosting a mirror, what exactly is
> going to be required to have it updated regularly? Someone is going to have
> to write the scripts to pull from the hg repo and then push up to github
> else it's just going to end up out-of-date on top of maintaining whatever
> setup is devised.
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It's slightly more work than this. You need to keep all the features
relying on hg work, like the revision version it was compiled from
etc.