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

[Ryan]

Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
>On 11/23/2014 07:03 PM, Ryan wrote:
>> I can agree with most of these points. Some more things to consider:
>> 
>> - Git is 20x faster than Hg (that's 99% of the reason I switched and
>hate using
>> Darcs)
>
>You won't get much traction with this argument around here.  As long as
>there
>aren't specific complaints about slowness (which probably could be
>fixed by a
>discussion on mercurial-devel), Hg is "fast enough", just like Python
>is "fast
>enough" compared to C.  (Otherwise, why bother.)

I know, but, when checking out large repos, it stings a little.

>
>> - GitHub is much nicer than BitBucket. I usually look for a git
>mirror of a
>> BitBucket repo since I hate browsing on BB
>
>I agree, Github's UI is nicer than BB.  It is also true that most
>features
>that are introduced on BB are "inspired" by GH.
>
>> - Even Plan9Port moved from Hg to GitHub a few days ago
>
>Projects move all the time.  Why is this one special?

Because, for ages, everything related to Rob Pike used Google Code and Mercurial, largely because he works at Google.

>
>> - Some Google devs even host their projects on GitHub (not Google
>Code)
>> 
>> Thank goodness no one has mentioned CodePlex.
>> 
>> BTW, I frown on projects that choose something largely inferior over
>a better
>> choice just because "one is written in X language." Now, if
>python.org
>> <http://python.org> was written in Ruby, that would just be sad, but
>certain
>> things just don't matter. Like DVCS's.
>
>You can read up PEP 374 for the reasons for Hg.  The main reasons
>against git
>were lacking Windows support (which probably is good enough now) and
>developer
>preference.
>
>Georg
>
>
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