[Twisted-Python] Moving Twisted off Trac and SVN to somewhere nicer

[Laurens Van Houtven]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Jonathan Lange <jml at mumak.net> wrote:

> I support Twisted moving to a DVCS and to something better than Trac.
> I personally would prefer Twisted to use Launchpad.
>
> Some points:
>  * Launchpad is much faster now that it was six months ago
>

Launchpad's definitely getting faster, but it's still not in the same
ballpark. bzr, too, seems a lot slower on many operations (although I'm not
sure how much of this is due to lp, and how much is due to git) despite
having been sped up a lot over the years.

Here's my incredibly unscientific (maybe these do significantly different
amounts of work, I'm not sure) test for checking out Twisted using
lp:twisted and github's powdahound/twisted:

bzr: 63.29s user 2.80s system 1:43.32 total
git: 6.93s user 3.28s system 0:45.75 total

That data is skewed in bzr's favour because someone started downloading
something huge halfway the git test. My point is that git's pretty fast, not
even particularly so for clone (because the slowest part there is the
network). Most of the work I've ever done on Twisted has been using bzr-svn,
and it has been at times noticeably slow. (but not quite frustratingly so).

Either way, I think this is probably the wrong discussion. Most of the time
I hear "Launchpad's UX is bad for coders, and it's slow", not "Launchpad is
slow and it's UX is bad".

  * Its code review system works well with UQDS
>

True, but I don't see how it works better than github's pull requests.


>  * Launchpad is open source & therefore patchable
>

Yes, that's a good point. I like that it's open source (although it has an
unfortunate license). Is the patching of Launchpad by third parties followed
by those patches landing in production a common occurrence?

However, I won't argue too hard about it.
>
> jml
>


cheers
lvh
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