<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'><br><div class="zmail_extra"><div dir="ltr"><br><b>Brett Cannon <brett@python.org></b> wrote:<br><div><div>> You can email me privately if you want, but let me know if you care if I share this with<br>> very select people like Guido. Also realize that anyone who says they will walk away will<br>> be held to their word; if we still choose to switch to GitHub I will expect you to no longer<br>> contribute to Python and will personally hold you to your word (which also makes private<br>> emails a little moot, but I can understand if you would rather fade away than make a public<br>> political statement). I'm saying this not to be threaten people into not giving me an answer<br>> but because I want to get the point across that this is a very serious question, so I don't<br>> want any wavering on the answer.</div></div><div><br></div>This doesn't concern me, since I've already said on core-workflow that I'll stay<br>regardless of the decision. Still, this sounds more like an ultimatum than a survey. ;)<br><br>Wavering is completely natural on such matters, for example the ctypes maintainer<br>mentioned in his goodbye message (shortly after the svn -> hg transition) that he<br>hadn't even looked at mercurial yet. Which indicates to me that churn in the<br>workflow can be a contributing factor in decisions like that.<br><br><br>More than that, changing one's opinion is rather natural, too. As a real world<br>example, I intensely disliked f-strings when they were discussed initially. I<br>prudently stayed out of the discussion altogether, and when I saw Eric's<br>implementation I was instantly sold. That's a complete reversal from -1 to +1.<br><br><br>I can't imagine that a statistician would accept any results derived from an<br>inquiry worded like that.<br><br><br>Stefan Krah<br></div></div></div></body></html>