[Idle-dev] [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

[Michael Foord]

On 12/07/2010 16:52, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Michael Foord
> <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>  wrote:
>
>    
>> That mailing list (python-checkins) is way too high traffic for many
>> committers to monitor. I hope people making comments on checkins also email
>> the committer directly.
>>      
> Not normally, no - there's no easy way to connect a checkin message to
> a committer's email address,

There's a one-to-one mapping somewhere.

> so it's usually just a matter of hitting
> "Reply" and sending the review comment to the list. With a new
> committer I'll make the effort to cc them directly in case they aren't
> subscribed yet, but I expect everyone else to be monitor the checkins
> list.
>    

Without contacting committers, rather than firing into the black depths 
of a high traffic list, I strongly suspect that much of the feedback is 
lost.

All the best,

Michael

> If the list is too high volume, filter it down to just those issues
> with your checkin name in the "From" or "To" fields (your own checkin
> messages will have the former, while replies should have the latter,
> even though the email address in both cases will actually be
> python-checkins at python.org.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
>    


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