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

[Wes Turner]

Specifically, which features are most ideal here?

- [ ] Userbase
- [ ] TTW editing only over SSL (see: Zope 2)
- [ ] Pull Requests (see also: BitBucket, Torvalds rant)
- [ ] Simple Issue Tagging
- [ ] Pingbacks
- [ ] CI Integration


On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

>
> > On Nov 30, 2014, at 12:06 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>
> wrote:
> >
> > Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> 1. I strongly believe that the long term sustainability of the overall
> >> open source community requires the availability and use of open source
> >> infrastructure.
> >
> > I concur. This article <URL:http://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html>
> > makes the arguments well, IMO.
> >
> >> 2. I also feel that this proposal is far too cavalier in not even
> >> discussing the possibility of helping out the Mercurial team […] we'd
> >> prefer to switch to something else entirely rather than organising a
> >> sprint with them at PyCon to help ensure that our existing Mercurial
> >> based infrastructure is approachable for git & GitHub users?
> >
> > Exactly. For such a core tool, instead of pushing proprietary platforms
> > at the expense of software freedom, the sensible strategy for a project
> > (Python) that hopes to be around in the long term is to use and improve
> > the free software platforms.
>
> 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.
>
> It’s akin to saying that if we chose to run the PyPI services on a Windows
> machine that it is somehow makes it less-free even though we could
> have chosen to run it on a “free” OS and we weren’t doing much, if
> anything,
> to tie us to that particular OS.
>
> If it makes people feel better we can continue to support the existing
> mechanisms of contribution, then people can choose between interacting
> with a “non free” host and “free” tooling. I suspect most people will
> choose
> the “non-free” tooling.
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