On 16 Jan 2014 05:30, "Vinay Sajip" <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > fair question. partly due to personal comfort level with git/github, but also was
> > hoping we'd get more involvement using github, since it's more popular.
>
> Your choice, of course, and I understand about the personal preference part. I do
> wonder how much involvement you will get from people who would be put off
> getting involved by the fact that a project is on BitBucket (which fully supports Git
> as well as Mercurial). There's so little difference in functionality between the two
> sites that I can't see any barrier to a real contributor (real = someone willing to
> spend a reasonable amount of time on a project, larger than the time required
> to learn a new but similar site). I suppose time will tell :-)

Lowering the barrier to participation for pip, virtualenv and warehouse developers was also a specific consideration.

Marcus didn't make the decision to move unilaterally - we discussed it on the user guide issue tracker and decided that on balance it made sense to move, since I didn't mind either way as the originator of the idea, it was easier for him as the author of most of the current content, the overall PyPA dev balance favours GitHub, and most Python community workshops for new users also express a preference for GitHub. While I have concerns about that situation in general, in this case, lowering overall barriers to contribution seemed the most important consideration.

Cheers,
Nick.

>
> Regards,
>
> Vinay Sajip
>
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