On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 at 12:49 Neil Schemenauer nas-python@arctrix.com wrote:
On 2015-12-15, Vinay Sajip wrote:
Brett Cannon
writes: Also realize that anyone who says they will walk away will be held to their word; if we still choose to switch to GitHub I will expect you to no longer contribute to Python and will personally hold you to your word
seems a little strong. Even principled people can change their minds about things, can't they? To me, this does come across like an ultimatum (Stefan's word) or a threat (your word)
I agree this is too strong. If people don't want to use GitHub, they can clone from a different repos, maybe PSF can even provide one. Patches can be sent using the 'git am' command. I don't see why not using GitHub means you can't contribute to Python. We would be rejecting valuable contributions for no good reason.
You could say something like "you will not get commit access through GitHub". I.e. you will have to get someone else to commit or pull your changes.
That's exactly what I meant; I'm not going to push to ban someone from uploading a patch to bugs.python.org. This is entirely about commit/push privileges and who would relinquish them if we switched to GitHub (and simply expecting them to follow through on their relinquishment if they said they would).