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

[Donald Stufft]

> On Nov 24, 2014, at 9:37 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> 
> On 11/24/2014 06:27 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:
>> On Nov 24, 2014, at 8:59 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
>>> 
>>> It is sounding to me like GitHub is not, itself, an open solution, even though
>>> they may support open source.
>> 
>> I’d agree if the tooling was comparable, but at the end of the day the closed
>> source tool is better and more popular. It isn’t Python’s job to fall on the
>> sword in the name of some greater ideology while other languages get to pick
>> the tooling that best enables them to serve the faith that their users have put
>> in them. “Practicality beats Purity” after all.
>> 
>> You might lament the fact that the closed source tool is the better option, but
>> the right response to that is to make an OSS alternative that is more, or at
>> least as, compelling as the closed source solution and then market that and win.
> 
> Or, make a list of the must-haves from the (for whatever reason) controversial choice, and implement them in our own
> infrastructure.
> 
> (Yeah, I guess I'm volunteering to help with that effort. ;)

Isn’t that essentially what I said? ;) Unless you were planning to make the implementations on our own infrastructure closed source. Sadly it’s not just a feature matrix that you need to fill out some check boxes, the closed source software in question just flat out *works* better than any of it’s open source counter parts. Tacking on some features onto an existing solution does not compare.

There’s also the social aspects of it as well which is a big concern too IMO. If you want to attract new contributors, not just keep the ones you already have sometimes that means going to where the new contributors are instead of telling them that they need to come to you.

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