[Twisted-Python] SURVEY: Have you submitted a patch to Twisted and it never got in?

[Tim Allen]

On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 09:11:34PM +0200, Laurens Van Houtven wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Itamar Turner-Trauring
> <itamar at itamarst.org>wrote:
> > Or for that matter, you can include e.g. an github URL in the ticket
> > instead of attaching the patch.
> 
> Only if there's a decent Github mirror to fork from, otherwise you're asking
> people to do a multi-hour operation (I know, because I'm doing it right now)
> to get a decent git repo,

Last time I tried (perhaps a year ago), a git-svn clone of the Twisted
SVN repo took the better part of a week. I seem to recall somebody
preparing a tarball of a git-svn-clone'd repository to help people
bootstrap, but my clone was already completed at that point so I didn't
investigate further.