<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Brett Cannon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brett@python.org" target="_blank">brett@python.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Tue Dec 02 2014 at 1:05:22 PM Guido van Rossum <<a href="mailto:guido@python.org" target="_blank">guido@python.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Thanks for taking charge, Brett.<br><br>I personally think this shouldn't be brought up at the summit -- it's likely to just cause lots of heat about git vs. hg, free vs. not-free, "loyalty" to free or open tools, the weighing of core committers' preferences vs. outside contributors' preferences, GitHub's diversity track record, with no new information added. Even if we *just* had a vote by show-of-hands at the summit that would just upset those who couldn't be present.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Well, if I'm going to be the Great Decider on this then I can say upfront I'm taking a pragmatic view of preferring open but not mandating it, preferring hg over git but not ruling out a switch, preferring Python-based tools but not viewing it as a negative to not use Python, etc. I would like to think I have earned somewhat of a reputation of being level-headed and so none of this should really be a surprise to anyone.</div><div><br></div><div>So if we did have a discussion at the summit and someone decided to argue for FLOSS vs. not as a key factor then I would politely cut them off and say that doesn't matter to me and move on. As I said, I would moderate the conversation to keep it on-task and not waste my time with points that have already been made and flagged by me and you as not deal-breakers. And any votes would be to gauge the feeling of the room and not as a binding decision; I assume either me or someone else is going to be the dictator on this and this won't be a majority decision.</div><span class=""><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div>But I'll leave that up to you. The only thing I ask you is not to give me the last word. I might just do something you regret. :-)<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>What about me doing something that <i>I</i> regret like taking this on? =)</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I trust you more than myself in this issue, Brett. You'll do fine. I may just leave the room while it's being discussed.<br></div><div> </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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