[core-workflow] We will be moving to GitHub

[Nick Coghlan]

On 3 January 2016 at 13:50, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Jan 02, 2016, at 06:45 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
>
>>> Some of these things might already be covered by existing PEPs, but I
>>> don't see them in PEP 507[0] and 481[1] (and I'm getting a bit lost
>>> among all the competing PEPs and multiple threads across at least a
>>> couple different MLs :).
>>
>>It will be either be a new PEP or the GitHub PEP will simply be rewritten.
>
> Please either write a new PEP, or just write some draft new chapters for the
> developer's guide.  Ultimately, anything that a developer has to care about
> really needs to be described in the devguide.

For the last hosting transition, PEP 374 covered the process of
choosing a distributed VCS, while PEP 385 covered the actual
Subversion -> Mercurial transition, and I think that's a good way to
go.

In particular, a separate "Migrating from hg.python.org to GitHub" PEP
provides a place to document the TODO list for the transition, and the
outcomes of any smaller decisions that will need to be made as an
incidental part of the migration (like handling Author/Committer data
for old commits), which aren't generally relevant to future
contributors (so don't belong in the developer guide), but also
weren't part of the repository hosting decision making process (so
don't really belong in PEP 507).

Cheers,
Nick.

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