Hi All, > If possible, I'd very much prefer that we have just the one DVCS mirror > instead of one for darcs, one for mercurial, one for git and one for bazaar.
I'm not a core developer but I thought I'd chime in on this one. In most cases discussions about version control are really not important - it's much better just to mandate *some* system, that's hopefully the best tool for the job, all things considered. I also recognise that bazaar and launchpad are important parts of the Twisted ecosystem, and I'm not suggesting Twisted should move away from them at all. However, when it comes to encouraging code contributions, it's getting to be more apparent that GitHub is becoming the widely accepted medium for this. I've been a mercurial man for a while, and would have hoped bitbucket became a bigger player in this area, but for various reasons it seems GitHub have "won" (whatever that means). In my daily work - in the wider field I work in, and in various projects my work and personal code depend on - more and more GitHub is becoming the primary home for development of these projects. Being "forced" into GitHub, I eventually (finally) *got* it - code contribution is easy, and fun. The "fork, code, issue pull request" model is fantastic. It's something that can be duplicated elsewhere, but a process that has been popularized by GitHub. It also has reached critical mass, and has entered into the minds of most developers I know as "the" place to put open source and private code on. For the sake of the encouragement of code contributions, I'd suggest Twisted establish some sort of official GitHub presence. Twisted has a great development process, and I realize the Twisted trac site should be the center of this process. What I also suggest is that someone (perhaps me, since I'm doing similar things at work), use GitHub's great API to automate integration with Twisted's trac and Development Process system. That way, besides setting up a periodic mirror system off the core svn repo, all development actions could be automated and unified. I'm fairly confident that such a system could be implemented - again, I'd enjoy helping out on this if the core devs think this would be useful. Cheers, Reza -- Reza Lotun mobile: +44 (0)7521 310 763 email: rlo...@gmail.com work: r...@tweetdeck.com twitter: @rlotun _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
