[Python-Dev] Fwd: Mirroring Python repos to Bitbucket

[Doug Hellmann]

Charles McLaughlin of Atlassian has set up mirrors of the Mercurial repositories hosted on python.org as part of the ongoing infrastructure improvement work. These mirrors will give us a public fail-over repository in the event that hg.python.org goes offline unexpectedly, and also provide features such as RSS feeds of changes for users interested in monitoring the repository passively.

Thank you, Charles for setting this up and Atlassian for hosting it!

Doug

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Charles McLaughlin <cmclaughlin at atlassian.com>
> Date: August 10, 2011 3:43:06 PM EDT
> To: Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com>, Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann at gmail.com>
> Subject: Mirroring Python repos to Bitbucket
> 
> Hey,
> 
> You guys expressed some interest in mirroring repos to Bitbucket a
> couple weeks ago.  I mentioned we mirror a few Python repos here:
> 
>  https://bitbucket.org/mirror/
> 
> But that doesn't cover everything from hg.python.org.  So, I wrote a
> little script that scrapes the Python HgWeb and mirrors everything to
> Bitbucket.  Here's the script in case you're curious:
> 
>  https://bitbucket.org/cmclaughlin/mirror-python-repos/
> 
> We're running the script hourly to keep the mirrors up to date.  The
> mirrored repos live under this URL:
> 
>  https://bitbucket.org/python_mirrors
> 
> A few people here have mentioned "python_mirrors" is a strange name.  I
> can change that if you'd like.  I don't have any better ideas though.
> Also, anyone can fork my script if they see any room for improvement :)
> 
> Please feel free to forward this email to mailing lists, etc to get the
> word out.
> 
> Regards,
> Charles