[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration readiness (was: Taking over the Mercurial Migration)

[anatoly techtonik]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>> So, if I understand correctly - there are no Mercurial mirrors for
>> testing at the moment,
>
> There are repositories at http://hg.python.org/; the "cpython" one
> represents the result of conversion at some point in time.

What is the problem with realtime synchronization and working with
already up to date Mercurial mirror of central SVN repository?

>> Development will continue in SVN
>> repository until everybody is ready for final migration in X weeks
>> later. Is that right?
>
> No; as soon as we switch, SVN will be read-only.

Why don't allow people who already know Mercurial use Mercurial and
those who prefer Subversion use that. If Mercurial allows to submit to
Subversion - why people can't use that while we writing tutorials and
answering question about workflow?
-- 
anatoly t.