> On Nov 23, 2014, at 2:01 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 23 November 2014 at 16:27, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: >>> On Nov 23, 2014, at 1:25 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> By contrast, proposals to switch from Mercurial to Git impose a >>> *massive* burden on contributors that don't already know git. That >>> significant increase in the time investment required will provide *NO* >>> practical benefit for existing contributors (this is coming from >>> someone that has used git and Mercurial in parallel for years - trust >>> me, they're functionally isomorphic), and only make life marginally >>> easier for potential new contributors (you can log in to BitBucket >>> with your GitHub ID, and the functional isomorphism means that many >>> folks already use tools like git-remote-hg to use the git command >>> line to interact with the hg.python.org Mercurial repos). >> >> Yea, but then you lose out on the entire ecosystem built around Github. >> >> Like you won’t be able to run travis tests on the docs to make sure that >> any Pull Requests don’t silently start breaking the ability to build the >> docs. > > Travis isn't the only CI system on the internet, and for pure Sphinx > documentation cases, ReadTheDocs runs just as well off BitBucket as it > does off GitHub.
Sure it’s not the only CI system, but as far as I know bitbucket doesn’t have near the integration possible with CI systems. I make a PR on github I get it tested and the merge button turns green to let me know that the tests run. Travis is popular enough that I’ve seen bitbucket projects hosting a mirror on github *just* for travis. > > I personally think changing version control systems would be an > incredibly bad idea, and consider it completely out of scope for > discussions of Mercurial repo hosting arrangements. There's a lot that > could be done, with much lower impact, just by changing the way we > manage the existing Mercurial repos. When we can't even work out the > practical details of getting those implemented, suggestions of > "git/GitHub will fix it!" sound like mere wishful thinking. > > Cheers, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
