Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Ben Finney Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: We will be moving to GitHub Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:02:17 +1100 Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <87si2hdoq3.fsf@jester.gateway.pace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de rJEcmcJUOUkS1cS5v6lPsQKCxoWKyNhC9/EAbF6qoFLw== Cancel-Lock: sha1:In9cQjG5q3dhfiRojHzYV0RKcjQ= Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.009 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.98; '*S*': 0.00; 'git': 0.09; 'patches': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'reports.': 0.09; 'tracker,': 0.09; 'bug': 0.10; 'python': 0.10; 'jan': 0.11; 'commit': 0.15; '2016': 0.16; 'elsewhere,': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'repo': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'tracker': 0.20; 'proprietary': 0.23; 'patch': 0.24; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints- To:1': 0.26; '(it': 0.29; 'correct,': 0.29; 'question:': 0.29; "i'm": 0.30; 'everyone': 0.31; 'common': 0.33; 'hell': 0.33; 'done': 0.35; 'robert': 0.35; 'level': 0.35; 'submitting': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'needed': 0.36; 'hosted': 0.36; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.36; 'pm,': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'being': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'enough': 0.39; 'submit': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'where': 0.40; 'field': 0.60; 'within': 0.64; 'world': 0.64; 'wanting': 0.66; 'account': 0.66; 'sounds': 0.76; '_o__)': 0.84; 'received:125': 0.84; 'unacceptable': 0.84; 'glad': 0.87; 'ware': 0.91; 'response,': 0.95 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: jigong.madmonks.org X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-pubkey.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:101131 Zachary Ware writes: > On Jan 1, 2016 2:35 PM, "Paul Rubin" wrote: > > Will everyone wanting to submit patches be required to use a Github > > account? Or will it be enough to put the patch in an outside repo > > and link to it in the Python issue tracker? I'm glad that (it sounds > > like) no Github account will be needed to submit bug reports. > > Correct, no GitHub account will be required for interactions on the > bugs.python.org tracker, and a patch can move all the way through to > commit entirely on the b.p.o tracker (just as currently). My experience with contributing to repositories hosted on GitHub, from repositories hosted elsewhere, necessitates the question: What is being done to stave off the common response, addressed by GitHub users to people submitting a change as a link to their Git repository, of “can you please submit that as a GitHub pull request”? That common response makes for an unnecessary and IMO unacceptable pressure toward centralisation. GitHub's “pull request” workflow is entirely proprietary and can only be done within GitHub. What will be done to ensure other Git repositories remain on a level playing field not only technically, but socially? -- \ “Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are | `\ willing to go through hell to get it.” —Donald Robert Perry | _o__) Marquis | Ben Finney