[Python-Dev] Tracker anonymity (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Dec 8 10:04:06 CET 2005

skip at pobox.com wrote:

Fine with me. Is it ready to go though? If not, what more needs to be done? I was under the assumption that it wasn't ready for prime time and solicited inputs on c.l.py in a couple messages yesterday and today.

Primarily, it needs a dedicated operator. Somebody who is willing to get it done, and somebody who doesn't run away when it is done, but reacts in a timely manner (similar to what I have been doing with subversion).

So far, nobody has stepped forward. Without such a person, I would be very hesitant to accept switching, even if the technology was demonstrable ready and easy to operate.

In addition, the pending technical issues are perhaps deeper than in the case for subversion. The conversion tool, for subversion, was ready to go, and nearly perfect (except that I managed to get the time not increasing monotonically); I'm just not sure what the status of the roundup conversion tool is (but I do remember that it exists, and is able to process the data obtained from SF XML export).

One other issue I remember is that the SF redirector replacement is not implemented: I would expect that python.org/sf/ will map the SF bug ids into roundup bug ids, and redirect appropriately; this hasn't been done (to my knowledge).

Regards, Martin

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