[Python-ideas] The concurrency discussion is off-topic!

[C. Titus Brown]

Please move any further discussion of both concurrency and how or where to
discuss concurrency issues to concurrency-sig.  Further discussion will be
moderated.

thanks all,
--titus

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 05:15:29PM +0200, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:41:57 +0200
> > Christopher Reay
> > <christopherreay at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Its not like there is a huge amount of traffic in python-ideas
> >
> > Are you kidding?
> >
> > The idiotic "TIOBE -3%" discussion thread is probably in the hundred of
> > answers now. That's for a completely vacuous thread launched 4 days ago
> > by a well-known troll.
> >
> 
> Well-known troll is +1 that proposal to write to an empty list sounds like
> "you're not welcome here with your multiprocessing". I guess you didn't
> mention that, so the problem probably that you can not handle the list
> traffic, and read all interesting Python ideas - not speaking about
> answering to all of them with your opinion. No problem with that either -
> nobody can. That's why there was proposal about Etherpad, which summaries
> would be as interesting for Python community as different blog posts from
> core devs.
> 
> python-ideas is not a playground for people with an opinion.
> > It's a communication tool for core development.
> >
> 
> Since many of (potential) core devs are not able to cope up with traffic in
> main lists, I'd propose to look for a better communication tool that at
> least allows easy selective subscription (like Google Groups) and makes
> sure interested parties have accessible instrument (for a reference to
> accessibility read Steve Yegge's rant at
> https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesvaVX) to
> subscribe and participate (search, tree with all mailing lists and
> one-button subscription). I've heard Pinax guys are rethinking their
> Tribes/Groups feature -
> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/pinax-users/Wze7L2LlwjM-
> perhaps you should communicate with them.
> 
> 
> > Thanks
> 
> 
> P.S. I am not changing the subject of this thread to stop spawning another
> "completely vacuous thread".
> P.P.S. Too bad I can not be at PyCon this year.
> -- 
> anatoly t.

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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu