> On Nov 24, 2014, at 6:44 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Are you volunteering to write a competing PEP for a migration to git >> and GitHub? > > Anyone who does decide to propose either Git or GitHub for hosting > Python resources: Please don't conflate the two. > > Git is a community-supported free-software DVCS system with many viable > hosting platforms and providers. > > GitHub is one proprietary hosting service with features that encourage > vendor lock-in, and as Barry Warsaw pointed out it is not answerable to > the PSF nor under the PSF's control. There are other hosting solutions > without these problems. > > Everyone here already knows this distinction at some level, but it's far > too common to see people assume that an argument in favour of Git will > also be a compelling case for GitHub. It isn't, and the case for the > latter needs to be made quite separately from the case for the former. > > No, I'm not offering to write such a PEP either. I'm requesting that we > recognise that a promotion of GitHub needs to account for its downsides > too, and needs to promote its specific benefits separately from the > benefits of Git. >
In many cases Github is git’s killer feature which is why you see a lot of people equate the two. It’s not unusual to see a project switch away from X to git entirely so they can use Github. --- 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
