We will be moving to GitHub
Michael Torrie
torriem at gmail.com
Sat Jan 2 22:24:50 EST 2016
On 01/01/2016 11:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 07:09 am, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> Yes, git is a capable tool. But so is Mercurial, and the arguments
>> weren't primarily based on differences in functionality (which are
>> pretty minor). It's mainly about the network effect.
>
> You call it the network effect. I call it monoculture.
Indeed. The whole purpose of git is to allow development to be
distributed. Is it a matter of hosting space? Is it too expensive for
python.org to host their own public-facing git repository? Especially
if python.org has no plans to use github's issue tracker this move makes
little sense to me. A pull request can be made from any developer's own
git repository without github, or even from github if other developers
really want to work there.
I can understand why OSS projects like github given its complete
project-management options. But if it's just the repository you're
after, I get far more mileage from my own locally-hosted git
repositories. It's not at all hard to push to a read-only public http
git repository. Pull requests can be made against individual
developers' http repos or hosted git providers.
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