[Python-Dev] Atlassian and bitbucket merge (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Sep 29 08:58:49 CEST 2010

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 18:13, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:

I see that Atlassian have just taken over BitBucket, the Mercurial hosting company. IIRC Atlassian offered to host our issue tracking on JIRA, but in the end we decided to eat our own dog food and went with roundup.

That's right. Enough of a vocal stink was thrown when the infrastructure committee chose a closed source, Java issue tracker that we went with Roundup instead, even though Atlassian offered to host the tracker for us.

I'm wondering if they'd be similarly interested in supporting our Hg server. Or is self-hosting the only acceptable solution? From recent mail it looks likes we may be up and running on Hg fairly soon.

Looking at their pricing model, we don't need permission; public repos can have unlimited contributors. Plus bitbucket supports CNAMEs so we would also be able to still have hg.python.org for accessing the repos.

The trick would be managing accounts. I would assume either everyone would need bitbucket accounts to add as contributors to a repo, or a dummy python-dev user account would be created where select core devs could add SSH keys to the python-dev user account (although I think the latter would destroy the commit history in terms of who made what change as I suspect bitbucket does it based on the bitbucket account and not one's .hgrc info although I could be wrong). Without knowing how this would be handled I can't really comment.

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