On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Nick Coghlan <[email protected]> wrote:
> More generally, I'm very, very disappointed to see folks so willing to > abandon fellow community members for the sake of following the crowd. > Perhaps we should all just abandon Python and learn Ruby or JavaScript > because they're better at getting press in Silicon Valley? That's a really low blow, Nick. I think these are the facts: - Hg/Git are equivalent in functionality (at least to the extent that the difference can't be used to force a decision), and ditto for BitBucket/GitHub, with one crucial exception (see below) - We're currently using Hg for most projects under the PSF umbrella (however, there's https://github.com/python/pythondotorg) - Moving from Hg to Git is a fair amount of one-time work (converting repos) and is inconvenient to core devs who aren't already used to Git (learning a new workflow) - Most newer third-party projects are already on GitHub - GitHub is way more popular than BitBucket and slated for long-term success But here's the kicker for me: **A DVCS repo is a social network, so it matters in a functional way what everyone else is using.** So I give you that if you want a quick move into the modern world, while keeping the older generation of core devs happy (not counting myself :-), BitBucket has the lowest cost of entry. But I strongly believe that if we want to do the right thing for the long term, we should switch to GitHub. I promise you that once the pain of the switch is over you will feel much better about it. I am also convinced that we'll get more contributions this way. Note: I am not (yet) proposing we switch CPython itself. Switching it would be a lot of work, and it is specifically out of scope for this discussion. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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