[Python-Dev] PEP 481 - Migrate Some Supporting Repositories to Git and Github

[Guido van Rossum]

Can we please stop the hg-vs-git discussion? We've established earlier that
the capabilities of the DVCS itself (hg or git) are not a differentiator,
and further he-said-she-said isn't going to change anybody's opinion.

What's left is preferences of core developers, possibly capabilities of the
popular websites (though BitBucket vs. GitHub seems to be a wash as well),
and preferences of contributors who aren't core developers (using
popularity as a proxy). It seems the preferences of the core developers are
mixed, while the preferences of non-core contributors are pretty clear, so
we have a problem weighing these two appropriately.

Also, let's not get distracted by the needs of the CPython repo, issue
tracker, and code review tool. Arguments about core developers vs.
contributors for CPython shouldn't affect the current discussion.

Next, two of the three repos mentioned in Donald's PEP 481 are owned by
Brett Cannon, according to the Contact column listed on hg.python.org. I
propose to let Brett choose whether to keep these on hg.python.org, move to
BitBucket, or move to GitHub. @Brett, what say you? (Apart from "I'm tired
of the whole thread." :-)

The third one is the peps repo, which has python-dev at python.org as Contact.
It turns out that Nick is by far the largest contributor (he committed 215
of the most recent 1000 changes) so I'll let him choose.

Finally, I'd like to get a few more volunteers for the PEP editors list,
preferably non-core devs: the core devs are already spread too thinly, and
I really shouldn't be the one who picks new PEP numbers and checks that
PEPs are well-formed according to the rules of PEP 1. A PEP editor
shouldn't have to pass judgment on the contents of a PEP (though they may
choose to correct spelling and grammar). Knowledge of Mercurial is a plus.
:-)

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

>
> > On Nov 30, 2014, at 7:43 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>
> wrote:
> >
> > Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> writes:
> >
> >> It’s not lost, [… a long, presumably-accurate discourse of the many
> >> conditions that must be met before …] you can restore it.
> >
> > This isn't the place to discuss the details of Git's internals, I think.
> > I'm merely pointing out that:
> >
> >> The important thing to realize is that a “branch” isn’t anything
> >> special in git.
> >
> > Because of that, Ethan's impression – that Git's default behaviour
> > encourages losing history (by re-writing the history of commits to be
> > other than what they were) is true, and “Git never loses history” simply
> > isn't true.
> >
> > Whether that is a *problem* is a matter of debate, but the fact that
> > Git's common workflow commonly discards information that some consider
> > valuable, is a simple fact.
> >
> > If Ethan chooses to make that a factor in his decisions about Git, the
> > facts are on his side.
>
> Except it’s not true at all.
>
> That data is all still there if you want it to exist and it’s not a real
> differentiator between Mercurial and git because Mercurial has the ability
> to do the same thing. Never mind the fact that “lose” your history makes it
> sound accidental instead of on purpose. It’s like saying that ``rm
> foo.txt``
> will “lose” the data in foo.txt. So either it was a misunderstanding in
> which case I wanted to point out that those operations don’t magically lose
> information or it’s a purposely FUDish statement in which case I want to
> point out that the statement is inaccurate.
>
> The only thing that is true is that git users are more likely to use the
> ability to rewrite history than Mercurial users are, but you’ll typically
> find that people generally don’t do this on public branches, only on
> private
> branches. Which again doesn’t make much sense in this context since
> generally
> currently the way people are using Mercurial with CPython you’re using
> patches to transfer the changes from the contributor to the committer so
> you’re
> “losing” that history regardless.
>
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> Donald Stufft
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