[Scons-dev] Rumour…

[Bill Deegan]

I'm of the opinion that there's no need to address the bug tracker at the
same time as move the repo and/or hg->git.
I only use hg for scons, git for everything else.



On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> On 05.01.2016 18:25, Bill Deegan wrote:
>
>> Not a rumor. ;)
>> http://lwn.net/Articles/669924/
>>
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/150459/focus=150960
>>
>>
>>
> when I read those two threads/articles it doesn't seem to be about "moving
> Python to Github"...they're considering (PEP481) to migrate certain
> supporting repositories, that don't need a bug tracker and can be used as a
> stand-alone repo.
> Am I getting this right?
>
> If yes, this is a different situation than we would have...we still have a
> bug tracker to migrate. And so far, everybody who tried to come up with a
> proposal about how to do it, while losing no significant data, seems to
> have given up on it. Would this change if we move to Github?
>
> It may be true that a lot of people nowadays simply know how to use "git"
> (or maybe they only "think" that they know ;) ), but I can't see a big
> boost of new contributors growing from this fact alone. OpenHatch has moved
> to Github recently (including their bug tracker) and they're still
> struggling and desperately calling for help. Maybe it is the "wrong"
> example, but it doesn't seem to be *that* easy. And someone has to do the
> migration work...I'd like to see volunteers and their ideas for the
> migration first, before supporting this idea.
>
> I'm not completely opposed to the idea of moving to Github ( and git,
> which I also know a bit, at least I "think" I do ;) ), but deep in my heart
> I still very much feel like Nick Coghlan (see
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.devel/150459/focus=150960 ) and
> think about Mercurial and SCons as part of the Python family. This weighs a
> lot in my opinion, so you have to put much more than "convenience" and "I
> suspect"s on the other side of the scale to convince me. :)
>
> So much for my 2c.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dirk
>
>
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