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Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects?

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On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>> > Pull requests. Code review. Issues. Integration with other services.
>> > All the social information around all of those interactions, and
>> > more.
>> >
>> > If *any* of that is valuable, then yes it's important that it not be
>> > locked to any one vendor.
>>
>> Exactly how important? Not so important as to stop slabs of Python
>> from migrating to GitHub, including its pull request system.
>
> I maintain that it is important enough to stop that.
>
> The migration happened anyway, because not everyone is convinced of the
> importance of avoiding vendor lock-in of valuable data, over criteria
> such as “this person happens to like Vendor-locked Solution Foo”.
>

Fine. You're welcome to take a 100% philosophical stance; I applaud
you for it. (I understand Richard Stallman is so adamant about not
using *any* non-free code - software or firmware - that he restricts
himself to a tiny selection of laptops that have free BIOSes.)
Personally, I believe practicality beats purity in computing
philosophy as well as API design, and I'll happily let GitHub carry my
software. What's the worst that can happen? I have to switch to
somewhere else, and I lose the issue tracker and pull requests. In the
case of CPython, they wouldn't even be lost - they're (to be) backed
up. In the meantime, I'm on a well-polished platform with a large
number of users. The same cannot be said for *many* other hosts, even
if they do use exclusively free software.

ChrisA

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  Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2016-06-30 15:09 +0200
    Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-06-30 15:03 +0100
    Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-06-30 16:06 -0700
      Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-01 09:13 +1000
      Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-06-30 19:16 -0400
        Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2016-07-01 07:53 +0200
    Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-01 11:14 +1000
    Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-07-01 11:38 +1000
      Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2016-07-01 07:41 +0200
        Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-07-13 11:28 +1000
        Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 13:39 +1000
        Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-07-13 14:42 +1000
        Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 15:11 +1000
          Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-13 16:44 +1000
            Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 17:00 +1000
              Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-13 18:49 +1000
                Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 19:20 +1000
            Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 22:07 -0600
              Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-13 21:49 -0700
              Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? hasan.diwan@gmail.com - 2016-07-14 12:04 -0700
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                Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-14 16:04 -0700
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                Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Brandon McCaig <bamccaig@gmail.com> - 2016-07-15 11:39 -0400
                Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-16 02:12 +1000
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                Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-07-15 11:11 +1000
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            Re: Were is a great place to Share your finished projects? Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99@gmail.com> - 2016-07-13 15:26 -0700
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