[Python-Dev] GSoC Student Introduction

[Paul Moore]

On 23/04/2008, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > See http://python.org/dev/bazaar/ for info. And if you have any other
> > issues feel free to ask, Nick.
>
> I certainly can't speak for the respective mentors, but I feel that
> "use bazaar" really isn't the right answer to "can I get commit access?"
[...]
> So I think an answer to the question above involving bazaar might
> be "yes, but please don't commit to subversion, but only to the
> bazaar repository".

Agreed. Can I also point out that Bazaar isn't an official repository
for Python (yet). I don't want to open up the DVCS discussion again,
but I have recently finished looking at both Bazaar and Mercurial for
my personal use (including managing Python contributions) and decided
on Mercurial. A significant part of the decision was the fact that in
certain configurations, Bazaar is really, really slow.

It feels a little like Bazaar is becoming the "de facto" DVCS solution
for Python, and I'd like to avoid that happening until a proper
evaluation has been done.

Paul.

PS If the fact that Bazaar repos are set up is an important factor
here, I'd be willing to set up the equivalent Mercurial repos -
although I would need access to the relevant boxes and possibly some
admin assistance.