<div dir="ltr"><div class="markdown-here-wrapper" style=""><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 10:41 PM Barry Warsaw <a href="http://mailto:barry@python.org">barry@python.org</a> wrote:</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">It heartening to know that we all care enough about Python, past, present, and future to want to see it succeed not just technically, but socially as well, and decisions about where and how our code will be developed are at least as much social as they are technical.  It’s also gratifying to know that a subject that can invoke such passion can for the most part be discussed rationally and civilly within our wonderful community.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">I’d like to echo this sentiment as well.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">I’ll also add that Python now joins <a href="https://github.com/showcases/programming-languages">an impressive list of programming languages hosted and developed on GitHub</a>.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Some of those languages just use GitHub’s issue tracker (e.g. <a href="https://github.com/golang/go">Go</a>), others just use GitHub pull requests (e.g. <a href="https://github.com/apple/swift/pulls">Swift</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ruby/ruby">Ruby</a>), and others use the full feature set (e.g. <a href="https://github.com/rust-lang/rust">Rust</a>).</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">I hope this transition both enables more people to get involved with Python and lessens the contribution burden on committers.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Cheers!</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Nick</p>
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