Re: Move selected documentation repos to PSF BitBucket account?

> On Nov 23, 2014, at 12:59 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 23 November 2014 at 15:19, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
>> This thread seems to beg for a decision. I think Donald Stufft has it
>> exactly right: we should move to GitHub, because it is the easiest to use
>> and most contributors already know it (or are eager to learn thee).
>> Honestly, the time for core devs (or some other elite corps of dedicated
>> volunteers) to sysadmin their own machines (virtual or not) is over. We've
>> never been particularly good at this, and I don't see us getting better or
>> more efficient.
> 
> The learning curve on git is still awful - it offers no compelling
> advantages over hg, and GitHub doesn't offer any huge benefits over
> BitBucket for Sphinx based documentation (ReadTheDocs works just as
> well with either service).

It does have one very big compelling advantage. It’s way more popular.

Besides, the learning curve on hg isn’t any better, it’s just differently
hard.

> 
>> Moving the CPython code and docs is not a priority, but everything else
>> (PEPs, HOWTOs etc.) can be moved easily and I am in favor of moving to
>> GitHub. For PEPs I've noticed that for most PEPs these days (unless the
>> primary author is a core dev) the author sets up a git repo first anyway,
>> and the friction of moving between such repos and the "official" repo is a
>> pain.
> 
> Note that if folks prefer Git, BitBucket supports both. I would object
> strongly to unilaterally forcing existing contributors to switch from
> Mercurial to git.

Going to all the trouble to move to an external repository and choosing the
least popular option out of the two main ones seems like a bad idea in
general.

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Donald Stufft
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