Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> writes: > 1. I strongly believe that the long term sustainability of the overall > open source community requires the availability and use of open source > infrastructure.
I concur. This article <URL:http://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html> makes the arguments well, IMO. > 2. I also feel that this proposal is far too cavalier in not even > discussing the possibility of helping out the Mercurial team […] we'd > prefer to switch to something else entirely rather than organising a > sprint with them at PyCon to help ensure that our existing Mercurial > based infrastructure is approachable for git & GitHub users? Exactly. For such a core tool, instead of pushing proprietary platforms at the expense of software freedom, the sensible strategy for a project (Python) that hopes to be around in the long term is to use and improve the free software platforms. > As a result, I'm -0 on the PEP, rather than -1 (and will try to stay > out of further discussions). I don't get a vote. So I'm glad there are some within the Python core development team that can see the mistakes inherent in depending on non-free tools for developing free software. -- \ “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is | `\ required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long | _o__) run.” —Henry David Thoreau | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ 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
