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

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014, at 01:25, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 23 November 2014 at 16:03, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> >> On Nov 23, 2014, at 12:59 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Note that if folks prefer Git, BitBucket supports both. I would object
> >> strongly to unilaterally forcing existing contributors to switch from
> >> Mercurial to git.
> >
> > Going to all the trouble to move to an external repository and choosing the
> > least popular option out of the two main ones seems like a bad idea in
> > general.
> 
> Moving repos from hg.python.org to bitbucket.org is just a matter of
> switching some URLs around, and changing some backend systems to cope
> with the new location. The end result should be to make life better
> for existing contributors *and* new contributors using the web UI, and
> be largely transparent to folks using command line tools.
> 
> By contrast, proposals to switch from Mercurial to Git impose a
> *massive* burden on contributors that don't already know git.

But how many people are there who will have this massive burden imposed
on them? I imagine there's few among us who haven't had to learn git for
our job or other projects.