On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 08:55:50AM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> But I strongly believe that if we want to do the right thing for the >> long term, we should switch to GitHub. > > Encouraging a software, or social, monopoly is never the right thing for > the long term. > > http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201405/github_monoculture.html > > >> I promise you that once the pain of the switch is over you will feel >> much better about it. I am also convinced that we'll get more >> contributions this way. > > I'm sure that we'll get *more* contributions, but will they be *better* > contributions? > > I know that there are people who think that mailing lists are old and > passe, and that we should shift discussion to a social media site like > Reddit. If we did, we'd probably get twenty times as many comments, and > the average quality would probably plummet. More is not necessarily a > good thing.
If we need to ensure that we're getting better contributions than we are now, then we should be interviewing committers, rejecting newcomers (or the opposite, multiplying core-mentors by 100), and running this like a business. I've written some crappy code that got committed, so I should probably be fired. Enabling our community to be active contributors is an important thing. Give them a means to level up and we'll all be better off from it. _______________________________________________ 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
