CPython: GitHub migration scheduled for Friday

As a Python user, I have mixed feelings about this change.

I think this move to corporate hosting is acknowledgment of usability and ease of use at the expense of political purity -- for a project as important and major as Python, this further solidifies GitHub's positioning as the place where open source coding "happens" (consider what a move to GitLab would have done for the legitimacy of their platform), a position that they've very successfully used to up-sell "free" into paid accounts.

Python preceded and will outlive GitHub, but this now implicitly means Python is amplifying and promoting the various political positions[0] of GitHub by driving more traffic and money to their platform, which is run by a company that currently employs at least two people to be politically active who have publicly made questionable/racist statements[1]. If you personally agree with GitHub's politics, great, but some do not or would prefer their work to have more apolitical side-effects.

That said, as someone that "source dives" on the semi-official CPython mirror on GitHub, then verifies on hg.python.org, this makes my life easier, and I'm only a casually interested party of the CPython source. I do wonder about the increase in (people) management overhead the ease-of-use will bring in filing "issues" with the project though, as the prior mechanism acted as a filter for non-technical people and those unable to follow instructions.

[0] https://action.github.com/ ; https://github.com/blog/2039-adopting-the-open-code-of-condu... (in contrast with PSF's https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ );

[1] "some of the biggest barriers to progress are white women" - GitHub's VP of "Social Impact" ; "don't think we'll succeed teaching white, male middle managers empathy and compassion anytime soon ... so let's limit their scope of damage" - GitHub's Technical Director for "Social Impact"