On 2 Jan 2016 07:37, "R. David Murray" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 20:25:11 +0000, Stefan Krah < [email protected]> wrote: > > Brett Cannon <brett@...> writes: > > > I don't think this will be a shock to anyone who has followed the > > discussion on this list. The decision is essentially based on: > > > > We must have been reading different discussions: On *this* list more > > people were in favor of GitLab! Except for Guido, Donald and Senthil > > (on python-committers) no one has even bothered to post an explicit > > +1 for GitHub. > > > > It's very disappointing that GitHub proponents apparently felt the > > need to contact you privately instead of stating their opinions in > > the open. > > The impression I got here was Barry advocating GitLab (of course), and > you arguing against GitHub (but not, particularly, in favor of GitLab). > Everything else was down at the noise level :) > > Me, I don't care one way or the other, as long as we aren't locking > ourselves in to either. > > Now, the fact that people felt it better to contact Brett privately to > advocate for GitHub is indeed interesting, and yes, disappointing. The > interesting question is, why is that? Perhaps it is what was alluded to > earlier, that favoring the "commercial alternative" is seen as "bad" in > terms of what we might label as "virtue signalling"? Which would be > weird, because GitLab isn't non-commercial. So maybe there's some other > reason (because GitHub is the big gorilla and people think it is > "better" to favor the underdog?), but I wonder if it still comes down to > virtue signalling (or, rather, not wanting to signal non-virtue, in this > case). > > So I agree with you, it would be great if people would openly speak > their minds, as Guido did :) > > On the other hand, it might just be a matter of the "usenet nod", and > not wanting to "clutter up the list" with a "me too". You did get some > pushback against your arguments, to which people may have been nodding. > > --David > _______________________________________________ > core-workflow mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/core-workflow > This list is governed by the PSF Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct
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