[Python-Dev] PEP: Migrating the Python CVS to Subversion (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum gvanrossum at gmail.com
Thu Jul 28 22:20:14 CEST 2005

On 7/28/05, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

I'd like to see the Python source be stored in Subversion instead of CVS, and on python.org instead of sf.net. To facilitate discussion, I have drafted a PEP describing the rationale for doing so, and the technical procedure to be performed.

In principle I'm +1 on this (both aspects). I don't know enough to understand all the subtleties.

I hope we're correctly estimating the effort required to manage the server and the users. Managing users is especially important -- if a user is compromised (as has happened in the past for python.org users) the whole repository is compromised. Now this could happen to SF users too, but I'm not sure that we know all the tricks in the book to prevent attacks; SF has been doing this for years and that's an aspect of SF that I trust (I think I've heard that they have even modified their SSH server to be stricter).

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