<html><head></head><body>I can agree with most of these points. Some more things to consider:<br>
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- Git is 20x faster than Hg (that's 99% of the reason I switched and hate using Darcs)<br>
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- People attached to Hg can use Hg-Git; I've used it several times with nice results. It can also be used to easily convert Hg repos to Git (I was using it to maintain a Pygments mirror, but got bored)<br>
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- GitHub is much nicer than BitBucket. I usually look for a git mirror of a BitBucket repo since I hate browsing on BB<br>
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- Even Plan9Port moved from Hg to GitHub a few days ago<br>
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- Some Google devs even host their projects on GitHub (not Google Code)<br>
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Thank goodness no one has mentioned CodePlex.<br>
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BTW, I frown on projects that choose something largely inferior over a better choice just because "one is written in X language." Now, if <a href="http://python.org">python.org</a> was written in Ruby, that would just be sad, but certain things just don't matter. Like DVCS's.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Nick Coghlan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ncoghlan@gmail.com" target="_blank">ncoghlan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
More generally, I'm very, very disappointed to see folks so willing to<br />
abandon fellow community members for the sake of following the crowd.<br />
Perhaps we should all just abandon Python and learn Ruby or JavaScript<br />
because they're better at getting press in Silicon Valley?</blockquote><div><br /></div><div>That's a really low blow, Nick.<br /><br />I think these are the facts:<br /><br /></div><div>- Hg/Git are equivalent in functionality (at least to the extent that the difference can't be used to force a decision), and ditto for BitBucket/GitHub, with one crucial exception (see below)<br /><br /></div><div>- We're currently using Hg for most projects under the PSF umbrella (however, there's <a href="https://github.com/python/pythondotorg">https://github.com/python/pythondotorg</a>)<br /><br />- Moving from Hg to Git is a fair amount of one-time work (converting
repos) and is inconvenient to core devs who aren't already used to Git
(learning a new workflow)<br /><br /></div><div>- Most newer third-party projects are already on GitHub<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>- GitHub is way more popular than BitBucket and slated for long-term success<br /><br /></div><div>But here's the kicker for me: <b>*A DVCS repo is a social network, so it matters in a functional way what everyone else is using.*</b><br /><br /></div><div>So I give you that if you want a quick move into the modern world, while keeping the older generation of core devs happy (not counting myself :-), BitBucket has the lowest cost of entry. But I strongly believe that if we want to do the right thing for the long term, we should switch to GitHub. I promise you that once the pain of the switch is over you will feel much better about it. I am also convinced that we'll get more contributions this way.<br /><br /></div><div>Note: I am not (yet) proposing we switch CPython itself. Switching it would be a lot of work, and it is specifically out of
scope for this discussion.<br /></div><div><br /></div></div>-- <br /><div class="gmail_signature">--Guido van Rossum (<a href="http://python.org/~guido">python.org/~guido</a>)</div>
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