[Python-Dev] Mercurial? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Apr 5 11:06:33 CEST 2009


Off the top of my head, the following is needed for a successful migration:

- Verify that the repository at http://code.python.org/hg/ is properly converted.

I see that this has four branches. What about all the other branches? Will they be converted, or not? What about the stuff outside /python?

In particular, the Stackless people have requested that they move along with what core Python does, so their code should also be converted.

- Add Mercurial support to the issue tracker.

Not sure what this means. There is currently svn support insofar as the tracker can format rNNN references into ViewCVS links; this should be updated if possible (removed if not). There would also be a possibility to auto-close issues from the commit messages. This is not done currently, so I would not make it a prerequisite for the switch.

- Setup temporary svn mirrors for the main Mercurial repositories.

What is that?

- Augment code.python.org infrastructure to support the creation of developer accounts.

One option would be to carry on with the current setup; migrating it to hg might work as well, of course.

- Update the release.py script.

There is probably some other things that I missed

Here are some:

Regards, Martin



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