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

[Trent Nelson]

Hey Brett, all,

I’m playing a bit of catch-up with e-mail, but it occurred to me some of the
work I did getting PyParallel switched over to github could be of benefit.
First thing that comes to mind is this wiki page where I tried to capture the
steps I used for the conversion and subsequent keeping-in-sync:

https://github.com/pyparallel/pyparallel/wiki/Source-Control

They’re very rough notes but may prove useful.  Should *hopefully* be
repeatable.  One issue I noticed after the fact is that a couple of the renames
that happened when we went 2.x->3.x (like ConfigParser.py -> configparser.py)
didn’t get picked up by the hg->git conversion so I had to manually fix them
with commits like this:
https://github.com/pyparallel/pyparallel/commit/d3654f13048c8d6185a4c4b7953cbe8bd46b5d83

(I’ll be able to produce a proper list of the exact ones I had to fix… I just
wanted to get this e-mail out there for now.)

(That repo is sync’d up to around 3.5-ish (i.e. as of a few months ago)… all
the PyParallel stuff lived in separate *-px branches that originated from
3.3.x-ish.  Obviously we wouldn’t use that repo directly… or at least not
without git filtering out my PyParallel stuff.)

I also made some changes to things like the buildinfo glue to work with git
instead of hg:

https://github.com/pyparallel/pyparallel/blob/branches/3.3-px/diffs/PCbuild/make_buildinfo.c.patch

I also updated the installer/msi.py to work with git but Steve’s since
overhauled all this stuff so I’m not sure how useful it will be:

https://github.com/pyparallel/pyparallel/commit/ca64e60fd323875e2ca4af497d15d2f856f6c34d

What timeframe are we looking at?  There were some mentions of PSF funding in
later e-mails which I think this sort of work (once off but still needs high
precision) is well suited for.  I’ll throw my hat into the ring if the
PSF<->Continuum want to formally book out some time.  (I’m happy to help either
way, but doing it formally at least guarantees time availability.)

Regards,

        Trent.

On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 07:24:53PM +0000, Brett Cannon wrote:
> If you want to read the reasons I chose GitHub over GitLab, see
> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/core-workflow/2016-January/000345.html .
> If you want to discuss the decision or help with the transition, please
> subscribe to the core-workflow mailing list.
> 
> Happy 2016 everyone, and here is to hoping we will have an easier developer
> workflow by the end of this year!

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