[Python-ideas] From mailing list to GitHub issues

[David Mertz]

I find email list VASTLY easier to deal with than any newfangled web-based
custom discussion forum. Part of that is that it is a uniform interface to
every list I belong too, and I can choose my own MUA. With all those web
things, every site works a little bit different from every other one, that
imposes an unnecessary cognitive burden (and usually simply lacks some
desired capability)

On Aug 13, 2016 11:39 AM, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

>
> > On Aug 13, 2016, at 2:21 PM, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> As Donald pointed out, there are people who are not going to create
> >> custom email processing toolchains.
> >
> >   In what way they will be helpful to the development of Python?
> > Contributors have to install, learn, configure and use a lot of
> > development tools, comparing to which email tools are just toys.
>
>
> Well, I personally generally do not have the time to sit there and craft
> some sort of complex email toolchain to deal with it. I just leave lists
> if their volume are too high for me to deal with or they don’t provide me
> the tools to interact with them in a non frustrating way. For example, I’m
> no longer subscribed to python-dev because of these reasons. I *think* I’ve
> positively impacted the development of Python, but maybe not! In any case
> I think that falling down the trap of thinking that anyone who is willing
> to contribute to Python is also willing to maintain a personal toolchain
> for dealing with the deficiencies in mailing lists is not a place we should
> be in.
>
> That’s not to say that a traditional mailing list may not represent the
> best
> trade off— I have my opinion, you have yours, but we should not start
> thinking
> that adding an obstacle course that a user must complete before they can
> meaningfully contribute is doing anything but self selecting for people
> willing
> to run that particular obstacle course, not selecting for skill or likely
> impact.
>
> —
> Donald Stufft
>
>
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