Hi, On Mon, Jul 4, 2022 at 3:21 PM Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2022 at 7:48 AM Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I just came across this: >> >> https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/ >> >> I guess this is something we should review and consider - although it >> would obviously have serious costs. >> >> Cheers, >> > > I didn't see anything in the article that made me want to switch. I would > need to see actual cases of abuse. I also recall that Linus used Bitkeeper > because it was the best tool at the time and made that argument. The trouble > arose when Andrew Tridgell reversed engineered the protocol, which Larry > McVoy complained violated the terms of use. So on and so forth. I haven't > noted problems along that line with GitHub. It doesn't bother me that it is > proprietary as long as they are responsive and I do appreciate the work going > on to make it better. Someone has to pay for that and we are getting a free > ride. It might be nice if we could back up the issues and PRs so history > wouldn't be lost if we did need to move at some point, but that would be a > good idea on any site.
Yes, I felt the same - that the arguments there were not completely compelling to me - yet - but I was wondering whether we should take the opportunity to take stock, and make sure we have prepared, in case we do have to move, or if there are a subset of developers who want to work elsewhere, collaborating with the main repository on Github. Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussion.python.org/ Member address: arch...@mail-archive.com
