On Jun 7, 2019, at 18:03, Victor Stinner <vstin...@redhat.com> wrote: > I am not sure that we are good at archiving.
I'm not sure what this has to do with mailing list URLs but ... > Example with Subversion links in the bug tracker: > > https://bugs.python.org/issue2001#msg123254 > > "Added the missing CSS file in r86971." > > The revision link is: > https://hg.python.org/lookup/r86971 > > Which redirects to the following HTTP 404 (not found) error: > http://svn.python.org/view?view=revision&revision=86971 This worked for mamy years. I believe the issue is that the process relied on the old Subversion source web viewer which has more recently been retired. > We have a mapping of Subversion commits to... Mercurial commits, but the > Mercurial server doesn't use it. > > Then bugs will migrate to GitHub. I already expect that we will loose some > data in the long term... > > I commonly have to dig into Python history to understand the rationale of a > change made 10 years ago, if not 15 or 20 years ago. It is becoming more and > more painful at each migration... There is an open issue about this that appears to have stalled: https://github.com/python/core-workflow/issues/12 Perhaps we can interest someone in picking it up. That would be a big help for everyone. -- Ned Deily n...@python.org -- [] _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/O4OMR5U4TKGEFERMFIVZGTDLU4EW6MOI/
