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On Tue Dec 02 2014 at 1:05:22 PM Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:

Thanks for taking charge, Brett.

I personally think this shouldn't be brought up at the summit -- it's likely to just cause lots of heat about git vs. hg, free vs. not-free, "loyalty" to free or open tools, the weighing of core committers' preferences vs. outside contributors' preferences, GitHub's diversity track record, with no new information added. Even if we \*just\* had a vote by show-of-hands at the summit that would just upset those who couldn't be present.

Well, if I'm going to be the Great Decider on this then I can say upfront I'm taking a pragmatic view of preferring open but not mandating it, preferring hg over git but not ruling out a switch, preferring Python-based tools but not viewing it as a negative to not use Python, etc. I would like to think I have earned somewhat of a reputation of being level-headed and so none of this should really be a surprise to anyone.

So if we did have a discussion at the summit and someone decided to argue for FLOSS vs. not as a key factor then I would politely cut them off and say that doesn't matter to me and move on. As I said, I would moderate the conversation to keep it on-task and not waste my time with points that have already been made and flagged by me and you as not deal-breakers. And any votes would be to gauge the feeling of the room and not as a binding decision; I assume either me or someone else is going to be the dictator on this and this won't be a majority decision.

But I'll leave that up to you. The only thing I ask you is not to give me the last word. I might just do something you regret. :-)

What about me doing something that I regret like taking this on? =)