[Distutils] Why github and bitbucket?

[Daniel Holth]

PyPA is very loosely organized and largely volunteer. I do not mind if
Mercurial prevents you from submitting a pull request to bdist_wheel. Also
before pypa you would have had to visit multiple personal accounts on each
service to find the projects.

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 4:22 PM Ian Cordasco <graffatcolmingov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Thomas Güttler
> <guettliml at thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
> > Am 05.11.2015 um 20:35 schrieb Ian Cordasco:
> >> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Thomas Güttler
> >> <guettliml at thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
> >>> Am 04.11.2015 um 21:14 schrieb Ian Cordasco:
> >>>> As I understand it, some people prefer Mercurial. Those projects tend
> >>>> to live on bitbucket. Git projects can live in either place although I
> >>>> suspect they tend to live on GitHub instead.
> >>>
> >>> Is there really a need for this?
> >>
> >> Is there a need for letting project creators work as they please with
> >> the VCS they prefer? Why not if it makes them more efficient
> >> maintainers.
> >
> > If the projects are unrelated then every maintainer should use what
> > he prefers. If the projects are related and maintained by one group
> (PyPa),
> > then there should be **one** hosting platform. - my opinion -
>
> That's super helpful. Thanks
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