> On Dec 14, 2015, at 3:48 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:
> 
> This also means neither GitHub or GitLab offer any specific benefit over each 
> other from what I can tell (if we dropped unique NEWS entries and did cherry 
> picks manually then I think GitLab EE gets us web-based squashing if I 
> understand things properly). But this bot-based approach gets us the 
> common-case managed entirely in the browser with a clean history.

Correct. You’re down to more nebulous things like “I like X’s UI better”, “X is 
more Free”, “X has a large community buy in” and such. Of course the downside 
is that we’d be diverging from the “normal” process for either tool so we’d be 
a bit special snowflake which increases the overhead for potential core 
developers… but I don’t think a bot command is a particularly onerous 
requirement for core developers to learn, and since it’s limited to just core 
developers it doesn’t affect the (hopefully) larger pool of external 
contributors.

Since Gitlab CE is OSS you could potentially modify it to have these things 
baked directly into it, but that feels like a less optimal solution than a bot 
since we’d be essentially forking it and then maintaining it ourselves.

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