[python-committers] [PSF-Members] Code Simplicity » Open Source Community, Simplified

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Michael Foord <mfoord at python.org> wrote:
> On 02/02/2011 23:35, Steve Holden wrote:
>>
>> On Feb 2, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Barry Warsaw<barry at python.org>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 03, 2011, at 08:54 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I suspect this problem with the preferred DVCS workflow is going to
>>>>> cut fairly heavily into the number of bug fixes applied to the
>>>>> maintenance branches.
>>>>
>>>> I'd be really surprised if it *has* to be that way.  Just how painful is
>>>> it in
>>>> Mercurial to apply to newest branch first and back port?
>>>
>>> I have no idea. I just know that the first response from veteran hg
>>> users when asked how to implement our current workflow in Mercurial is
>>> "don't do that" (followed by reluctant explanations of tools you might
>>> use to do it, if you insisted on doing things "the wrong way").
>>>
>> Call me unadventurous, but i'd quite like to see how we get on ding things
>> the *right* way first.
>>

Call me naive, but isn't the planned hg workflow described in the PEP?

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0385/#proposed-workflow

No, I have not read it. :-)