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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Apr 6 15:07:21 CEST 2009

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1

On Apr 6, 2009, at 7:55 AM, Michael Foord wrote:

Gated checkins can work fine but can also have many problems. For example if we have a spuriously failing test then if you are working on an unrelated issue it will be entirely up to chance as to whether you can checkin...

Building the docs would be another thing we could check, although it can take a while. If we have a queue then it could be the case that you do a commit - and then discover half an hour later that it conflicts with something that was ahead of you in the queue.

All very true. Where I've worked with gated branches, there are
procedures for dealing with each of these issues. For a test suite
like Python's which runs in a few minutes, I don't think some of the
more extreme approaches are necessary (as opposed to a system where a
full test run takes hours). On the whole though, it's a net win
because you know the main tree is always good. This is especially
useful around release time! But I guess it's up to Benjamin now to
push for that :).

Barry

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin)

iQCVAwUBSdn+iXEjvBPtnXfVAQIEKAP/b3RcUIxcxOpTGfk8POAj+oQXvcvIpI+H 6sN2CWss7bt9qLVlJMFCJoEH78JKnydHuGy+JmZf2rMtnfwIr0w7EFSMoT8X7tPg YflsHn3ePrBddqD9EOwXo+hQfgodSKHEyPHDPgYSMUtiR4TTqkVXD/o4ViQk4K1b YFtRkehHKfc= =F39k -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list