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

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Wed Sep 29 12:42:34 CEST 2010

Am 29.09.2010 09:03, schrieb Dirkjan Ochtman:

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 03:13, 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.

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. Don't know about acceptable, but as far as I know hosting Mercurial repositories doesn't require as much work as hosting Roundup instances (which the Mercurial project also has). I wouldn't mind maintaining hg.python.org, and there are probably other devs that could also easily get involved. Anyway, I don't think using Bitbucket buys us much. It could be nice to keep a mirror there for redundancy and because it might make contributing slightly easier for non-committers, but it won't allow doing all kinds of custom hooks the way we could do with hg.p.o, AFAICT.

Agreed on both counts. Bitbucket will be a good solution for non-core developers to host their clones and branches, and I'm sure there will be a mirror of the main Python repo somewhere. But as you say, hosting Mercurial is very easy, and doesn't require constant administration.

The argument of hooks is a very strong one in favor of hg.python.org.

Georg

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