Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> writes: >I understand that in Python's case, pure cost wins out. Python.org >could host a GitLab instance, which contains the repo tools plus ticket >tracking, etc, and ordinary developers could push their changes to their >own public git repos and send in pull requests and it would all work >swimmingly. However this comes at considerable cost in terms of >maintenance of the server and server software. So I can understand the >allure of GitHub. It's shiny and free-ish.
Python's primary repository is Mercurial (hg.python.org), not Git. Were python to switch, it wouldn't be too much work to just deploy gitlab (or whatever) instead of mercurial. However, I see nothing git offers over mercurial. -- H -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
