[Python-Dev] Move selected documentation repos to PSF BitBucket account? (original) (raw)

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Sun Nov 23 08:14:57 CET 2014

On Nov 23, 2014, at 2:01 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On 23 November 2014 at 16:27, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

On Nov 23, 2014, at 1:25 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote: By contrast, proposals to switch from Mercurial to Git impose a massive burden on contributors that don't already know git. That significant increase in the time investment required will provide NO practical benefit for existing contributors (this is coming from someone that has used git and Mercurial in parallel for years - trust me, they're functionally isomorphic), and only make life marginally easier for potential new contributors (you can log in to BitBucket with your GitHub ID, and the functional isomorphism means that many folks already use tools like git-remote-hg to use the git command line to interact with the hg.python.org Mercurial repos).

Yea, but then you lose out on the entire ecosystem built around Github. Like you won’t be able to run travis tests on the docs to make sure that any Pull Requests don’t silently start breaking the ability to build the docs. Travis isn't the only CI system on the internet, and for pure Sphinx documentation cases, ReadTheDocs runs just as well off BitBucket as it does off GitHub.

Sure it’s not the only CI system, but as far as I know bitbucket doesn’t have near the integration possible with CI systems. I make a PR on github I get it tested and the merge button turns green to let me know that the tests run. Travis is popular enough that I’ve seen bitbucket projects hosting a mirror on github just for travis.

I personally think changing version control systems would be an incredibly bad idea, and consider it completely out of scope for discussions of Mercurial repo hosting arrangements. There's a lot that could be done, with much lower impact, just by changing the way we manage the existing Mercurial repos. When we can't even work out the practical details of getting those implemented, suggestions of "git/GitHub will fix it!" sound like mere wishful thinking. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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