Brief article on benchmarks of Python repository with leading DVCSen

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Feb 11, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> The Python developers have *no interest whatsoever* in a "fair"
> comparison.  They want a comparison in workflows that have the
> absolute minimum differences from their current workflows.  (Note the
> plural here; that's important.  Workflows differ substantially between
> committers and non-committers, and even within each of those classes.)

This is an interesting point, because I think there's a vocal few core  
committers who see no reason to switch from Subversion at all.  To me,  
this is short sighted because I'd like to give non-core committers all  
the benefits that core committers have... well, short of being able to  
commit to the official branches of course.

It still means that the core committers need to be sold on the use of  
dvcs's in general, and the specific choice in particular.  But we also  
have to advocate on behalf of those that aren't part of the discussion  
at all, i.e. the non-core developers.

Barry

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