[Python-Dev] devinabox has moved to GitHub

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed May 25 13:37:52 EDT 2016


On Wed, 25 May 2016 at 10:24 Franklin? Lee <leewangzhong+python at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Should these notes come with version requirements/minimums?
>
> "OS X users should be told to download XCode from the Apple App Store
> ahead of time."
> "If new contributors think they may be doing C development, suggest
> the use of LLVM + clang as this provides better error reporting than
> gcc."
> "For Windows users, ask them to download and install Visual Studio
> Community edition ahead of time."
>

If you want to submit a PR to say "the latest" that's fine, but I don't
know if any of those tools really promote downloading older versions such
that one has to worry about it.


>
> On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> > https://github.com/python/devinabox
> >
> > The single issue for devinabox has moved to its own issue tracker, so
> > there's no need to worry about those issues cluttering b.p.o in the
> future.
> > I have made the Python core team I created on GitHub last week have write
> > privileges and Nick and I as admins on the repository. I have also
> turned on
> > the CLA bot for the repository (FYI
> > https://github.com/python/the-knights-who-say-ni has that bot's code).
> >
> > I've asked Georg, Antoine, and Benjamin to tell me what I need to do to
> shut
> > off -- either by making it read-only or just deleting --
> > hg.python.org/devinabox.
> >
> > Now that the migration has seriously begun, the next repos will be the
> peps
> > and devguide (slightly more complicated thanks to needing to update
> commands
> > for building their online versions). There's also the benchmarks repo,
> but
> > that might not get migrated if we start from scratch (see the speed@ ML
> > about that).
> >
> > As for cpython, I've been asked to talk about it at the language summit
> > where I will start a conversation about what the minimal feature set will
> > need to be to migrate. Once we have  settled on what has to be in place
> to
> > migrate the cpython repo then we can start working on that TODO list.
> >
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