On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:04:42AM +0000, Barry Warsaw wrote: > One of the reasons why I'm very keen on us moving to a distributed version > control system is to help break the logjam on core developers. True, your > code will still not be able to land in the "official" branch without core > developer intervention, but you will be able to share your code, fixes, > branches with everyone in a much more live way than patches in a tracker.
I don't see how a DVCS will fix anything. The bottleneck is in assessing patches for inclusion in the master tree; not enough people are doing that. We'd just end up with lots of proposed branches waiting to be merged, instead of patches to be applied. (What a DVCS might enable is making it easier to do larger experiments, like the recent Vmgen work, and publish them in a form that people can download. We could create SVN branches now, but that means people would then have commit access to all of the Python source.) --amk _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
