[Python-Dev] I would like an svn account

[Victor Stinner]

> A little offtopic: it seems to me it is a flaw of svn, that it
> encourages the model of two classes of developers, those with a commit
> access (first class) and those without it (second class).

Yes, that's the problem. Is it not possible to have finer permission (instead 
of boolean permission: commit or not commit)? Eg. give commit access but only 
for a file or a directory? It looks like Tarek Ziade is now allowed to 
commit, but only on distutils. I like such permission because nobody knows 
the whole Python project, it's too huge for a single brain ;-)

> your main point is that using bugtracker for committing patches 
> is very painful (I agree)

No, my point is that some patches stay too long in the tracker. GIT, Mercurial 
or anything else are a little bit better than the tracker (the patches can be 
synchronized with upstream), but the goal is to be part of the upstream code 
base.

A distributed VCS is useful to test huge changes. Performance improvment on 
integers (patches to optimize the multiplication, use base 2^30 instead of 
2^15, etc.) would benefit from such tools, because cooperative work is 
easier.

-- 
Victor Stinner aka haypo
http://www.haypocalc.com/blog/