[code-quality] Request For Comments: Moving Flake8 development to Git

Tarek Ziadé tarek at ziade.org
Sat Sep 13 15:17:55 CEST 2014


Le 13/09/14 09:52, Ben Finney a écrit :
> Sylvain Thénault
> <sylvain.thenault at logilab.fr> writes:
>
>> On 12 septembre 08:18, Carl Crowder wrote:
>>> I think it's a good idea. I personally dislike contributing to
>>> hg-based projects because it's such a faff for me compared to using
>>> git, and I wouldn't be surprised if others are put off contributing
>>> for a similar reason (not that I'm saying the reason is good, I'm just
>>> lazy!)
>> Isn't this rather a question of platform - github vs bitbucket ?
> No, using Git doesn't imply GitHub hosting. Likewise, using Mercurial
> doesn't imply Bitbucket hosting.
>
> I think it's a better idea to host a repository on something like a
> Gitorious instance, since it avoids proprietary extensions (such as
> those of GitHub) to ensure there's no lock-in to a specific provider.
>
> So please, mke the decision of which VCS *system* independent of which
> *hosting service*. And please choose a hosting service without
> proprietary extensions.

This is very true - however the (sad) truth is that having a project on
github.com boosts contributions like nowhere else - and I guess at the
end of the day it's still beneficial for OSS.


Cheers
Tarek


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