[python-committers] We will be moving to GitHub (hopefully) in 2016

[Alex Gaynor]

Probably the easiest thing is to point the linkifier at our own webservice
that just does:

if hash not in cache:
    try:
         requests.head("github.com/hash")
     except requests.error:
         try:
            request.head("hg.python.org/hash")
         except request.error:
            return 404
         else:
            cache[hash] = hg.python.org
     else:
         cache[hash] = github
return cache[hash]


I'll send you my consulting bill :-)
Alex

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 8:33 PM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 05 Jan 2016 01:26:58 +0000, "Gregory P. Smith" <greg at krypto.org>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 12:34 PM R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > to have to do some extra work to make the hash links work in the bug
> > > tracker, since I don't think there's any a priori way to distinguish
> > > between hg hashes and git hashes.
> > >
> >
> > Just ignore the remote possibility of short 32-bit hash prefix collisions
> > (possible, but infrequent): the way to resolve that is when a hash lookup
> > fails, to look it up in a translation index of former hg hashes.
> >  practical.  good enough.
>
> Yes, collision is not the problem, it's that you can't distinguish them
> without a lookup table or something.  Which means we have to do more
> than just change the URL in the existing linkifier, which was my point.
>
> --David
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