[Python-Dev] PEP 481 - Migrate Some Supporting Repositories to Git and Github (original) (raw)

Matěj Cepl mcepl at cepl.eu
Mon Dec 1 08:40:27 CET 2014

On 2014-11-30, 11:18 GMT, Ben Finney wrote:

Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> writes:

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. GitHub deliberately encourages proprietary features that create valuable data that cannot be exported — the proprietary GitHub-specific pull requests being a prime example.

What I really don’t understand is why this discussion is hg v.
GitHub, when it should be hg v. git. Particular hosting is a secondary issue and it could be GitHub or git.python.org (with some FLOSS git hosting package ... cgit/gitolite, gitorious, gitlab, etc.) or python.gitorious.org (I believe Gitorious people might be happy to host you) or whatever else.

Best,

Matěj

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