[Python-Dev] PEP 481 - Migrate Some Supporting Repositories to Git and Github

[Matěj Cepl]

On 2014-11-30, 11:18 GMT, Ben Finney wrote:
> Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> writes:
>
>> I think there is a big difference here between using a closed source
>> VCS or compiler and using a closed source code host. Namely in that
>> the protocol is defined by git so switching from one host to another
>> is easy.
>
> GitHub deliberately encourages proprietary features that create valuable
> data that cannot be exported — the proprietary GitHub-specific pull
> requests being a prime example.

What I really don’t understand is why this discussion is hg v.  
GitHub, when it should be hg v. git. Particular hosting is 
a secondary issue and it could be GitHub or git.python.org (with 
some FLOSS git hosting package ... cgit/gitolite, gitorious, 
gitlab, etc.) or python.gitorious.org (I believe Gitorious 
people might be happy to host you) or whatever else.

Best,

Matěj