[Python-ideas] A bit meta

[Mirmojtaba Gharibi]

I support a stack exchange website. Quite often here a few members
overwhelm the email exchanges and the ideas no matter how clearly
you've explained them get buried in your very first email which you
have to repeat over and over and basically the discussion becomes
answering different here and there criticisms of a particular member.
I mean the conversation can quickly become only marginally relevant to
the entirety of your idea. I think stack exchange can sort out that
chaos considerably and if core developers don't really are looking for
consensus, that's okay; at least the convesation is sorted out. Every
new visitor has a chance of first seeing the idea proposed at the top
of the page, then the comments and answers.

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 1:31 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The python-dev and python-ideas communities form a very important part
>> of that process, but the most valuable things folks bring are
>> additional perspectives (whether that's in the form of different use
>> cases, additional domains of expertise, knowledge of practices in
>> other programming language communities, etc)
>
> This. As mentioned in PEP 10 [1], it's the explanations and
> justifications, far more than the votes, that make the real
> difference. That said, though, the votes are a great way of gauging
> the support levels for a set of similar proposals (eg syntactic
> options), where the proposer of the idea doesn't particularly care
> which of the options is picked. It's still not in any way democratic,
> as evidenced by the vote in PEP 308 [2], which had four options
> clearly better than the others, but the one that's now in the language
> was the last of those four in the votes.
>
> ChrisA
>
> [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0010/
> [2] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0308/
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