[python-committers] branches and merging

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mar 02, 2010, at 08:21 AM, A.M. Kuchling wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 04:36:42AM +0100, Jesus Cea wrote:
>> I can't wait for HG. I have read the main cutprit for the delay is the
>> line-ending issue with MS Windows developers. Is there anything else
>> holding us back?.
>
>Note that, if you'd just like to use Mercurial for your own
>convenience while developing, the mirrored repositories at
>http://hg.python.org/ are up-to-date; you just can't push changes
>back.  I have a regex patch that was developed using an hg checkout of
>the Python source tree, with my changes layered atop it using the mq
>extension.

We really need to move to a dvcs for development sooner rather than later.
It's been a year since the decision was made.  I understand that it will suck
for Windows developers in the short term, but with all the discussion about
the PSF paying for pdo infrastructure work, I think getting us off of
Subversion would have the most immediate positive impact for development of
Python.  If the EOL issue is the holdup, what can we do *right now* to break
that logjam?  Can't the PSF pay somebody to make this happen?

-Barry
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