s...@pobox.com writes: > I believe it runs counter to the professed intention of the switch > away from a centralized version control system, to make it easier > for more people to contribute to Python. It certainly seems harder > for this old dog.
Well, you may be an old dog, but you're also an early adopter. That means both that you get to pay for our mistakes (our = authors of PEPs 374 and 385), and that it's going to take a while to disentangle implementation issues from the real long-run costs and benefits. Costs of transition were admitted up front. The professed intention was to make things *harder* in the short run (but as little as possible!), while making contribution to Python significantly more attractive (but not necessarily less work!) in the long run. I don't think anybody tried to hide the fact that changing habits would be required, or to claim that it would be costless. There were a few people with a Pollyanna "try it, you'll like it" attitude, but certainly those of us involved in PEP 374 knew better than that -- we knew there were people like you whose patterns of contribution worked just fine with the svn-based workflow and didn't need or want to change. That's why PEP 374 was necessary! Yes, based on the description you give of your principal contribution pattern, you take a complexity/effort hit in the transition. I think it can be alleviated quite a bit with the help of your reports, but that will take some time. All I can say about that time is "Sorry!" and "Thank you for trying the system while it's still in beta." I hope you will give it some more time to shake down. _______________________________________________ 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