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Sun Nov 30 22:05:53 CET 2014 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-November/137358.html

On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 10:05:01 -0800
Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> 
> I bring this up to emphasize that (unlike GNU software and the FSF) Python
> has no additional hidden agenda of bringing freedom to all software.

As far as GNU and the FSF are concerned, I don't think the agenda is
"hidden" at all ;-)

> Now some entirely practical points.
> 
> - I am basically the only remaining active PEP editor, so I see most PEP
> contributions by non-core-committers. Almost all of these uses github. Not
> bitbucket, not some other git host, but github. I spend a fair amount of
> time applying patches. It would most definitely be easier if I could get
> them to send me pull requests.

Are you sure that those contributors wouldn't want to use Bitbucket -
or another hg-based hosting service?

A PEP contributor is someone who is likely to contribute CPython code as
well - so they would have to know hg.

Regards

Antoine.

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