On Saturday, November 22, 2014, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 November 2014 at 15:19, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > This thread seems to beg for a decision. I think Donald Stufft has it > > exactly right: we should move to GitHub, because it is the easiest to use > > and most contributors already know it (or are eager to learn thee). > > Honestly, the time for core devs (or some other elite corps of dedicated > > volunteers) to sysadmin their own machines (virtual or not) is over. > We've > > never been particularly good at this, and I don't see us getting better > or > > more efficient. > > The learning curve on git is still awful - it offers no compelling > advantages over hg, and GitHub doesn't offer any huge benefits over > BitBucket for Sphinx based documentation (ReadTheDocs works just as > well with either service). Git may well have a learning curve, but ever since I "got" it I started preferring it over hg. Too bad for BitBucket, but most people who started contributing to open source in the past 5 years already have a GitHub account. > > > Moving the CPython code and docs is not a priority, but everything else > > (PEPs, HOWTOs etc.) can be moved easily and I am in favor of moving to > > GitHub. For PEPs I've noticed that for most PEPs these days (unless the > > primary author is a core dev) the author sets up a git repo first anyway, > > and the friction of moving between such repos and the "official" repo is > a > > pain. > > Note that if folks prefer Git, BitBucket supports both. I would object > strongly to unilaterally forcing existing contributors to switch from > Mercurial to git. > What about potential new contributors? And the hg-git bridges that git fans are always referred to work in the opposite direction too... :-) -- --Guido van Rossum (on iPad)
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