On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 12:44 AM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote:
> On Aug 23, 2016, at 01:22 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > > >You noticed that, too, huh? :) > > Oh yes! Mailman 3 is hosted on GitLab, and I host almost all my personal > projects there, so I also get their newsletter. > > >While the update makes me even more keen to move some of our work projects > >away from GitHub and back to GitLab (which we were already considering for > >reasons related to GitHub's limited access control management options for > >private repos), I didn't see anything that made me go "Yes, we absolutely > >need this for CPython". > > Agreed, for now. Of course, friendly competition is always good, and I use > GitHub for plenty of things, but I do really like GitLab. Some things are > better/easier on one or the other hosting platform, but for CPython, I > think > much more important to get us in git soon, and we can fairly easily > migrate to > a different hosting platform later if we want. We already have a > python-devs > group and a python unofficial mirror, which I think we should keep > up-to-date > as we complete the move to GitHub. > > >After all, GitLab's "migrate away from GitHub" features are hardly going > to > >get *worse* over time, so the risk of CPython actually getting *stuck* on > >GitHub is very low. That means the main persistent workflow changes in > the > >current migration are moving code review away from the issue tracker and > into > >the repository management system, enabling bots to handle certain mundane > >review tasks (checking for CLA signatures, running the tests) and > switching > >to self-service management of SSH keys for client authentication. > > +1 of course. It'll be a huge, good change for our workflow. I know that > switching to git will make *me* more motivated to start contributing again. > > I guess you're not the only one. And most importantly, this should hopefully get us more keen folks working and contributing to CPython. Once this step is done I agree that switching from one hosting platform to another will be much simpler than the current work Brett is doing.
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