A lot of these arguments and points have already been made and hashed out on the python-dev list. There's a very good article that one of the python core developers wrote about the decision to move to github
http://www.snarky.ca/the-history-behind-the-decision-to-move-python-to-github Basically, maintaining an open source git server, bug tracker, etc. would have cost time and money, and historically very few people were willing to contribute those, especially the people who were the most opinionated on the desire to remain "pure to open source". Github gives all these things away for free. And pretty much every python developer has already used github for other projects. In the article he makes a good point that if you're that worried about always using open-source, then you shouldn't be using gmail, or twitter, or even automobiles, since they all use software that is closed-source. At some point, paying for software just makes sense. On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 7/14/2016 3:04 PM, hasan.di...@gmail.com wrote: > > Python's primary repository is Mercurial (hg.python.org), not Git. >> > > CPython's current repository .... > Ditto for the PSF Python docs. > > Were python to switch, >> > > Like it or not, CPython and the Docs are moving to git and github. > PEPs and the devguide have already been moved. > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
