Mercurial Servers

[Ethan Blanton]

Gary Kramlich spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > Also just want to point out that you really get the benefit of
> > switching to Bitbucket if you're able to stop running your own
> > Mercurial server. So ideally you'd shut down the server on rock and
> > not bother trying to keep it in sync or keep it running or apply
> > security updates or ever have to think about ACL for it. I also think
> > it's a good idea to keep all the existing source code (all branches in
> > all repos) accessible somehow (e.g. hosting static files or dumping
> > everything to Bitbucket), but I might be alone in that.
> 
> Right now the sync is to let everyone transition.  Long term, I would
> like to shut it down. But we need to figure out what to do with SOC
> repositories and stuff.

I think, as Mark mentioned, that the old branches should all be
retired to a static repository on our web server.  (That is, no hgweb
etc.) Any CPW or SoC branches that still have life in them should move
to forks driven by their respective "owners".

We will have to think about how we want to handle future SoC branches;
CPW branches will, I think, just go away.  The main pidgin repo would
then hold only long-lived branches and release branches.

Does that match others' expectations?

Ethan