[Numpy-discussion] Moving away from svn ?

[Travis E. Oliphant]

Robert Kern wrote:
> Travis E. Oliphant wrote:
>
>   
>> I don't think it is time to move wholesale to something like Mercurial 
>> or bzr.   I would prefer it if all of the Enthought-hosted projects 
>> moved to the (new) system at once,  which is not going to happen in the 
>> short term (but long term of course it's an open question).
>>     
>
> I think that's irrelevant. There is absolutely no reason that we should force 
> all of the Enthought-hosted projects to move in sync.
It is relevant, because I have my hands in all of them.  I don't want to 
have to keep up with too many different systems at once.   Perhaps it's 
selfish and immaterial to others, but it is relevant to me.
>  We would have reason if we 
> were being asked to host a different centralized VCS with a complicated server, 
> but hosting Mercurial or bzr is nearly trivial. We already do it for me:
>
>    http://www.enthought.com/~rkern/cgi-bin/hgwebdir.cgi
>
> The remaining thing we would have to support is the Trac integration. While not 
> as trivial as simply hosting the repositories, it's not a very large commitment.
>
>   
Trac integration is exactly what I'm thinking about.   If it is easy, 
then it is not a big deal, but I have not seen arguments or evidence 
that it is the case (or suggestions of something to use other than Trac 
-- which is also a bigger deal for moving everything at once).

-Travis O.