[Python-Dev] Move selected documentation repos to PSF BitBucket account?

[Ben Finney]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> writes:

> Are you volunteering to write a competing PEP for a migration to git
> and GitHub?

Anyone who does decide to propose either Git or GitHub for hosting
Python resources: Please don't conflate the two.

Git is a community-supported free-software DVCS system with many viable
hosting platforms and providers.

GitHub is one proprietary hosting service with features that encourage
vendor lock-in, and as Barry Warsaw pointed out it is not answerable to
the PSF nor under the PSF's control. There are other hosting solutions
without these problems.

Everyone here already knows this distinction at some level, but it's far
too common to see people assume that an argument in favour of Git will
also be a compelling case for GitHub. It isn't, and the case for the
latter needs to be made quite separately from the case for the former.

No, I'm not offering to write such a PEP either. I'm requesting that we
recognise that a promotion of GitHub needs to account for its downsides
too, and needs to promote its specific benefits separately from the
benefits of Git.

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Ben Finney