- [ ] Paste-able links On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Wes Turner <wes.tur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> - [ ] Stable URIs > - [ ] Commit hashes > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Wes Turner <wes.tur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> - [ ] Markdown >> - [ ] ReStructuredText >> >> - [ ] Review (why are these out of band?) >> >> On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Wes Turner <wes.tur...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Specifically, which features are most ideal here? >>> >>> - [ ] Userbase >>> - [ ] TTW editing only over SSL (see: Zope 2) >>> - [ ] Pull Requests (see also: BitBucket, Torvalds rant) >>> - [ ] Simple Issue Tagging >>> - [ ] Pingbacks >>> - [ ] CI Integration >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> > On Nov 30, 2014, at 12:06 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> >>>> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > 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. >>>> >>>> I think there is a big difference here between using a closed source VCS >>>> or compiler and using a closed source code host. Namely in that the >>>> protocol is defined by git so switching from one host to another is >>>> easy. >>>> >>>> It’s akin to saying that if we chose to run the PyPI services on a >>>> Windows >>>> machine that it is somehow makes it less-free even though we could >>>> have chosen to run it on a “free” OS and we weren’t doing much, if >>>> anything, >>>> to tie us to that particular OS. >>>> >>>> If it makes people feel better we can continue to support the existing >>>> mechanisms of contribution, then people can choose between interacting >>>> with a “non free” host and “free” tooling. I suspect most people will >>>> choose >>>> the “non-free” tooling. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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/wes.turner%40gmail.com >>>> >>> >>> >> >
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