Re: What's the "right" way to abandon an open source package?

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It's on github (by request from another person who didn't take it
over). It's also on Google Code. I'm actually pretty naive and
agnostic about these various hosting sites and their favorite revision
control tools, but I don't have enough time to master all of them.

I think I have a couple volunteers. Cross your fingers.

Thanks,

Skip

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 20:59:48 +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
>
>> Put it on github
>
>
> http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201405/github_monoculture.html
>
> Besides, do you really want to give your support to a crowd who built a
> replica of the Oval Office in their corporate offices? While git is a
> decent DVCS, almost as good as hg, there's something about git culture
> which attracts geek wankery.
>
>
> --
> Steven
> --
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Thread

Re: What's the "right" way to abandon an open source package? Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml@gmail.com> - 2014-07-01 20:59 +0300
  Re: What's the "right" way to abandon an open source package? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-01 18:40 +0000
    Re: What's the "right" way to abandon an open source package? Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-07-01 13:51 -0500
    Re: What's the "right" way to abandon an open source package? Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml@gmail.com> - 2014-07-01 22:05 +0300
    Re: What's the "right" way to abandon an open source package? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-07-01 16:34 -0600
    Discussion problems of monoculture (was: What's the "right" way to abandon an open source package?) Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-07-02 09:34 +1000

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