Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote: > You can email me privately if you want, but let me know if you care if I share this with > very select people like Guido. 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 (which also makes private > emails a little moot, but I can understand if you would rather fade away than make a public > political statement). I'm saying this not to be threaten people into not giving me an answer > but because I want to get the point across that this is a very serious question, so I don't > want any wavering on the answer.
This doesn't concern me, since I've already said on core-workflow that I'll stay regardless of the decision. Still, this sounds more like an ultimatum than a survey. ;)
Wavering is completely natural on such matters, for example the ctypes maintainer mentioned in his goodbye message (shortly after the svn -> hg transition) that he hadn't even looked at mercurial yet. Which indicates to me that churn in the workflow can be a contributing factor in decisions like that.
More than that, changing one's opinion is rather natural, too. As a real world example, I intensely disliked f-strings when they were discussed initially. I prudently stayed out of the discussion altogether, and when I saw Eric's implementation I was instantly sold. That's a complete reversal from -1 to +1.
I can't imagine that a statistician would accept any results derived from an inquiry worded like that.
Stefan Krah