hey dowvoters i am not a troll, many python projects avoided github initially because github was powered by ruby, see it in context chef, puppet,vagrant,heroku are of ruby origin but now loved by people from various technology backgrounds
> Lastly, all things being equal (which they are not as shown by the previous two issues), it is preferable to use and support a tool written in Python and not one written in C and shell.
Okay this pertains to Python itself but could easily have mattered to Django.
[0] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0374/#why-mercurial-over-...
So; in summation pick the right tool for your team not due to some techno bigotry, which is what that PEP outlines.
Precisely and I was not saying otherwise. The Python team chose hg partly (but not only) because it is written with Python, just as the Django team could have decided to choose Bitbucket partly because it is written with Django[0]. And they could have chosen hg partly because it is written with python, or chosen git (which they did), as both were supported by Bitbucket.
Whatever, I'm not saying they should have, just that they could, and that dogfooding is a valid point if it is not blindly overrated (i.e bigotry) but carefully considered.
[0] https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoSuccessStoryBitbuc...
Tiobe 2012 report http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
Javascript is 9th and Ruby in 11th for popularity on tiobe but take first and second rank on github open source projects
I understand not all pre-github projects have moved from sourceforge and google code, but even for newer projects people have biases for technology choices
This doesn't make any sense. Don't tell me that there are C# developers who don't use Google because they use Java.