[Python-3000] Python source code on Bazaar vcs

Thu Mar 20 20:42:22 CET 2008

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I'm happy to announce that we now have available for public 
consumption, the Python source code for 2.5, 2.6 and 3.0 available 
under the Bazaar distributed version control system.
The current Subversion repository is still the master copy of the 
source code. We have not made a decision to move to Bazaar 
officially, nor have we made a decision to even move off of 
Subversion. We're making these branches available exactly so that 
you, the Python developer community, can kick the tires and see if it 
makes sense to move to a different vcs. Nothing will happen until 
after the Python 2.6/3.0 releases anyway.
All the gory details are documented here:
 http://www.python.org/dev/bazaar
These branches are available both for core Python developers with 
commit privileges, and the wider world of developers without commit 
privileges. It's this latter group that I think will find the most 
compelling immediate benefit from using Bazaar, because they will no 
longer need to maintain their own changes using a mass of patch files.
For more information on Bazaar in general, see:
 http://bazaar-vcs.org
You will probably be most interested in the Bazaar mirrors of the 
Subversion master repository. We have a cron job that updates Bazaar 
from Subversion every 15 minutes. It is also possible to push changes 
made in your Bazaar branches into the Subversion master, so you can 
keep reasonably up-to-date and interact with the Python source code 
solely via Bazaar.
Please let me know if you have any questions or anything in the docs 
referenced above aren't clear. I know I need to document the Bazaar- 
 >Subversion workflow in more detail.
Huge thanks go out especially to Thomas Wouters who sprinted with me 
yesterday on getting the whole infrastructure up and running. Thanks 
also to Martin v. Loewis, Sean Reifschneider, and the folks here at 
Pycon from the Bazaar project, Ian, Andrew, John, and Edwin.
Enjoy,
- -Barry
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