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New Python development process (SourceForge considered Harmful?)

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Wed Sep 27 14:44:03 EDT 2000 
In article <3dg0mly9w0.fsf at kronos.cnri.reston.va.us>,
Andrew Kuchling  <akuchlin at mems-exchange.org> wrote:
>
>SourceForge isn't currently mirrored, though I understand they're
>working on it.  You can download tarballs containing the entire CVS
>tree for your project.  I hope someone at BeOpen has set up a cron job
>to do that every few days, since losing the CVS tree would be a
>massive disaster.  There's no way to download all the patches or bug
>reports, though, so if SourceForge went away, that information would
>be lost, which would be very annoying but not fatal.

Hmmm....  Maybe someone should write a script to do it?  ;-)

(I guess I'm willing to volunteer, but I'd rather know that I'm not
duplicating effort.)
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