[Pypentago-devel] The future of pypentago

[Florian M. <flo...@ai...>]

Dear pypentago developers,
I just completed refactoring the pypentago code-base to make use of the
new actions module I have written. It enables us to exchange the UI of
pypentago more easily. As the current user-interface is not the best
one, this could give us the opportunity to make a better way. Because I
am not that skilled in user-interface design, as you can tell from the
current interface, I think we could make use of a seasoned
user-interface programmer.


Secondly, I have to talk about worse news.
You might not have noticed, as I am currently the de-facto only
committer to the repository, but it is down pretty often:
[ gna/pypentago/trunk ] % svn update
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
svn: Connection closed unexpectedly

I get this pretty often and I am pretty annoyed by it. It also ruined
todays commit I did using git-svn, as I *really* like the branching of
DVCS. This all boils down the the question of whether we should switch
to a new repository. We could still keep our bug-tracker at Gna! or
wherever we want it to be, but I, personally, would really support
opening up a Git or Mercurial repository for pypentago. There are good
and free locations where you can put up your Git or Mercurial
repository, being http://gitorious.org and http://bitbucket.org,
respectively. I really ask you to, if you have time, install both Git
and Mercurial and play around with them locally. As they are DVCS you do
not need a central repository to try out all the stuff.

Thirdly I am telling you that I am not going to be available starting
from the following Wednesday for about one-and-a-half week. If you don't
know what to do, you can always try to improve pypentago.server.rooms if
you want, as at the moment it only is a blueprint.

Best regards,
Florian Mayer

PS: If you have time to review the changes I have recently done, please
tell me what you think.
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