Python switching to Git and GitHub

[Richard Hipp]

On 1/27/16, Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es> wrote:
> On 06/01/16 22:49, Martin Geisler wrote:
>> I just saw this post
>> today:
>> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/core-workflow/2016-January/000345.html
>>
>> The Python developers have decided to move away from Mercurial :-(
>
> Not all of us (core developers) agree with that. Moving away from Git
> and falling in the arms of a private business called GitHUB.
>
> That said, the decision is already taken. Too bad. Live goes on.
>
> Of course I will keep using Mercurial and I will interface with github
> via hg-git.

I read on Slashdot that GitHub is currently experiencing a major
outage.  All repos are inaccessible.

I'm really struggling not to gloat about this....
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D. Richard Hipp
drh at sqlite.org