[python-committers] Comments on moving issues to GitHub

[Brett Cannon]

On Sun, 20 May 2018 at 10:43 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On May 20, 2018, at 10:19, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > IIRC, the general reaction was that it was definitely worth exploring,
> but that it would be a lot of work and require solutions to a lot of
> problems to make sure people's workflows weren't too impacted, so we'd need
> a much more detailed proposal before any decision could be made.
>
> Note too that Bryan Clark from GitHub, who I believe is a product manager
> there, was at the packaging mini-summit.  If/when we have a specific set of
> asks for the migration, we can reach out to him and see how they can help.
> For example, I specifically asked about my favorite GitLab feature “commit
> when CI passes” and it sounded like they were working on that.
>

There was also general consensus that the state of maintenance for bpo is
subpar due to lack of staffing and that more people will need to come
forward to help maintain it if we decide to not transition to another issue
tracker like GitHub or GitLab.
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