[Python-Dev] Move selected documentation repos to PSF BitBucket account?
Ethan Furman
ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Nov 25 03:37:25 CET 2014
On 11/24/2014 06:27 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:
> On Nov 24, 2014, at 8:59 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
>>
>> It is sounding to me like GitHub is not, itself, an open solution, even though
>> they may support open source.
>
> I’d agree if the tooling was comparable, but at the end of the day the closed
> source tool is better and more popular. It isn’t Python’s job to fall on the
> sword in the name of some greater ideology while other languages get to pick
> the tooling that best enables them to serve the faith that their users have put
> in them. “Practicality beats Purity” after all.
>
> You might lament the fact that the closed source tool is the better option, but
> the right response to that is to make an OSS alternative that is more, or at
> least as, compelling as the closed source solution and then market that and win.
Or, make a list of the must-haves from the (for whatever reason) controversial choice, and implement them in our own
infrastructure.
(Yeah, I guess I'm volunteering to help with that effort. ;)
--
~Ethan~
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