[SciPy-dev] The future of SciPy and its development infrastructure

[Pauli Virtanen]

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:32:54 -0600, Robert Kern wrote:
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>> I agree on this - having a "blessed" mirror so that anyone into DVCS
>> could have a "reference" would be enough for me, at least as long as
>> there is no good solution for bug tracking (the one advantage of
>> switching to a DVCS is easier merging/branching, but I am worried about
>> the workflow if the bug tracker cannot track branches).
> 
> The user pastes in the URL of his branch. Bug trackers don't really
> "track branches"; they track the status of issues. Some bug trackers,
> like that in Trac and Redmine, have some special mark up to make it easy
> to refer to a particular revision in their repo browser. Is that what
> you are talking about? Remember that with a DVCS, it is intrinsically
> difficult to accomplish this; anyone can host their branches anywhere.

I'd think the markup/URLs shouldn't be a problem, since, as Robert says, 
one can just paste URLs.

I would be a bit more worried about support for 'Milestones' and 
'Versions'. AFAIK Trac (at least the 0.10.3 we have) is a bit primitive 
here, as a bug can be only assigned to a single version/branch. So it's 
not easy to query for bugs that have been fixed in trunk, but haven't 
been backported eg. to 0.7.x branch.

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Pauli Virtanen