[Python-Dev] Move selected documentation repos to PSF BitBucket account?

[Guido van Rossum]

On Saturday, November 22, 2014, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23 November 2014 at 15:19, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > This thread seems to beg for a decision. I think Donald Stufft has it
> > exactly right: we should move to GitHub, because it is the easiest to use
> > and most contributors already know it (or are eager to learn thee).
> > Honestly, the time for core devs (or some other elite corps of dedicated
> > volunteers) to sysadmin their own machines (virtual or not) is over.
> We've
> > never been particularly good at this, and I don't see us getting better
> or
> > more efficient.
>
> The learning curve on git is still awful - it offers no compelling
> advantages over hg, and GitHub doesn't offer any huge benefits over
> BitBucket for Sphinx based documentation (ReadTheDocs works just as
> well with either service).


Git may well have a learning curve, but ever since I "got" it I started
preferring it over hg.

Too bad for BitBucket, but most people who started contributing to open
source in the past 5 years already have a GitHub account.


>
> > Moving the CPython code and docs is not a priority, but everything else
> > (PEPs, HOWTOs etc.) can be moved easily and I am in favor of moving to
> > GitHub. For PEPs I've noticed that for most PEPs these days (unless the
> > primary author is a core dev) the author sets up a git repo first anyway,
> > and the friction of moving between such repos and the "official" repo is
> a
> > pain.
>
> Note that if folks prefer Git, BitBucket supports both. I would object
> strongly to unilaterally forcing existing contributors to switch from
> Mercurial to git.
>

What about potential new contributors? And the hg-git bridges that git fans
are always referred to work in the opposite direction too... :-)




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