[META-SIG] Terminating comatose SIGs
Ken Manheimer
klm@python.org
Wed, 17 Dec 1997 12:21:50 -0500 (EST)
The defunct-sigs issue has been around for a while, and i've been slow
about taking action on it. I've finally taken a few steps, from some
good ideas suggested here (and advocated by guido for a while). Here's
what i've done.
1 I've instituted a wrap-up date for sigs, described it on the SIGs
home page - http://www.python.org/sigs , and created a column for it
in the SIGs table on that page.
2 I've assigned wrap-up dates of *today* for several of the SIGs that
guido identified as inactive (according to very low SIG maillist
traffic)
3 I retired the inactive SIG entries to a new inactive-sigs page -
http://www.python.org/sigs/inactives.html . (I left the thread-sig
with a wrap-up date of May 98, as requested by greg.)
Despite suggestions about making the criteria for creating a SIG more
stringent - eg, have some code to show - i'm inclined to think the
current procedure is fine. I can appreciate the incentive for requiring
some code - ie, evidence of some real effort, not just enthusiasm - but
also think there are sigs worth having that do not necessarily have any
clear tangible product to justify their existence. And i think SIG
retirement should account for the potential for clutter inherent in the
current, somewhat loose procedure. I think the looseness is worthwhile,
provided it isn't a burden.
(I'm hoping in the next few weeks to play seriously with mailman,
potentially relieving the bulk of the burden in creating SIGs: the
majordomo reconfiguration that barry has to do, and the SIG archive
infrastructure setup that i do, to create a SIG.)
Any suggestions or objections to the changes are welcome...
Ken Manheimer klm@python.org 703 620-8990 x268
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