On Thu 13 May 2021 at 12:04 +0200, Florian Bruhin wrote:
> I've always wondered when pytest actually really was born - the first
> commit in the current pytest repository 
> (5992a8ef21424d7571305a8d7e2a3431ee7e1e23) is
> from January 2007, and even that commit alone already tells a lot: This
> repository originally was from the py library[1] (later split off to
> pytest), and it originally was a SVN revision, migrated to Mercurial,
> and finally migrated to git.
[...]

Nice historical digging!  I'm afraid I can't really add much, but this
already contains a lot more detail then I was aware off.

> - In September 2004, the `py-dev` mailinglist gets born, which is now
>   pytest-dev, but thankfully with all the original archives still
>   intact: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/pytest-dev/

IIRC this pytest mailing list used to be hosted on codespeak.net for
many years.  I'm impressed its archives survived the move to python.org!


Cheers,
Floris
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