[Python-Dev] And the winner is...

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009, Terry Reedy wrote:
>> Michael Urman wrote:
>>> Guido:
>>>>
>>>> We're switching to Mercurial (Hg).
>>>
>>> And two hours later, GNOME announces their migration to git is
>>> underway. I'd suspect a series of April Fools jokes, if it weren't two
>>> days early. :)
>>
>> Like Python, Gnome was/is using SVN and tested (at least) GIT, bzr, and
>> hg mirrors, starting somewhat earlier than Python, for DVCS migration.
>> As announced in January, the majority of *their* developers preferred
>> GIT.  They started conversion then, in January, and made a progress
>> announcement on March 19 (not yesterday).
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.devel.announce/15
>>
>> I fail to see any joke.  Different people have different tool preferences.
>
> As Michael said, joke suspicion comes from the timing.

AFAIC the only joke was that I announced the decision on Twitter first...

> Combine that with Guido's previous post about the Van Lindberg clause...

Um, that was on psf-members, which has  much smaller audience than python-dev.

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