PyPA is very loosely organized and largely volunteer. I do not mind if Mercurial prevents you from submitting a pull request to bdist_wheel. Also before pypa you would have had to visit multiple personal accounts on each service to find the projects.

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 4:22 PM Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Thomas Güttler
<guettliml@thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
> Am 05.11.2015 um 20:35 schrieb Ian Cordasco:
>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Thomas Güttler
>> <guettliml@thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
>>> Am 04.11.2015 um 21:14 schrieb Ian Cordasco:
>>>> As I understand it, some people prefer Mercurial. Those projects tend
>>>> to live on bitbucket. Git projects can live in either place although I
>>>> suspect they tend to live on GitHub instead.
>>>
>>> Is there really a need for this?
>>
>> Is there a need for letting project creators work as they please with
>> the VCS they prefer? Why not if it makes them more efficient
>> maintainers.
>
> If the projects are unrelated then every maintainer should use what
> he prefers. If the projects are related and maintained by one group (PyPa),
> then there should be **one** hosting platform. - my opinion -

That's super helpful. Thanks
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