> On Nov 23, 2014, at 1:03 AM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > >> >> On Nov 23, 2014, at 12:59 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 23 November 2014 at 15:19, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >>> This thread seems to beg for a decision. I think Donald Stufft has it >>> exactly right: we should move to GitHub, because it is the easiest to use >>> and most contributors already know it (or are eager to learn thee). >>> Honestly, the time for core devs (or some other elite corps of dedicated >>> volunteers) to sysadmin their own machines (virtual or not) is over. We've >>> never been particularly good at this, and I don't see us getting better or >>> more efficient. >> >> The learning curve on git is still awful - it offers no compelling >> advantages over hg, and GitHub doesn't offer any huge benefits over >> BitBucket for Sphinx based documentation (ReadTheDocs works just as >> well with either service). > > It does have one very big compelling advantage. It’s way more popular. > > Besides, the learning curve on hg isn’t any better, it’s just differently > hard. > >> >>> Moving the CPython code and docs is not a priority, but everything else >>> (PEPs, HOWTOs etc.) can be moved easily and I am in favor of moving to >>> GitHub. For PEPs I've noticed that for most PEPs these days (unless the >>> primary author is a core dev) the author sets up a git repo first anyway, >>> and the friction of moving between such repos and the "official" repo is a >>> pain. >> >> Note that if folks prefer Git, BitBucket supports both. I would object >> strongly to unilaterally forcing existing contributors to switch from >> Mercurial to git. > > Going to all the trouble to move to an external repository and choosing the > least popular option out of the two main ones seems like a bad idea in > general. >
Also important to note, that if people want to use hg on their own, it’s pretty easy to do that with https://hg-git.github.io/. Last I heard that works pretty well still. I’ve yet to find one that works the other direction that doesn’t choke on some repositories. --- 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