On Fri, Nov 21, 2014, at 07:36, Nick Coghlan wrote: > For those that aren't aware, PEP 474 is a PEP I wrote a while back > suggesting we set up a "forge.python.org" service that provides easier > management of Mercurial repos that don't have the complex branching > requirements of the main CPython repo. Think repos like the PEPs repo, > or the developer guide repo. > > The primary objective of the PEP is to enable an online editing + pull > request style workflow for these pure documentation projects that only > have a single active branch. > > I'd been taking "must be hosted in PSF infrastructure" as a hard > requirement, but MAL pointed out earlier this evening that in the age > of DVCS's, that requirement may not make sense: if you avoid tightly > coupling your automation to a particular DVCS host's infrastructure, > then reverting back to self-hosting (if that becomes necessary for > some reason) is mostly just a matter of "hg push". > > If that "must be self-hosted" constraint is removed, then the obvious > candidate for Mercurial hosting that supports online editing + pull > requests is the PSF's BitBucket account. > > There'd still be some work in such a change to make sure we didn't > break automated regeneration of associated site elements, but that's > still a lot simpler than adding an entirely new piece of > infrastructure. > > If folks are amenable to that variant of the idea, I'll undefer PEP > 474 and revise it accordingly, with the developer guide and the PEP's > repo as the initially proposed candidates for transfer.
I hate to say this, but if we're going to have "doc" repos hosted in a different place than code, we might as bite the bullet and move them to Git + GitHub. That would surely maximize the community size + ease of use objective function. Otherwise, moving the hosting will probably be more trouble (administratively + infra) than it's worth. I know it's hard to know, but do we have a lot of people comping at the bit to submit PRs to the devguide repo? _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
