[Python-ideas] From mailing list to GitHub issues

Nicholas Chammas nicholas.chammas at gmail.com
Sun Aug 14 12:16:06 EDT 2016


On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 1:16 PM Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
<http://mailto:donald@stufft.io> wrote:

I think one of the big trade offs here, is that the traditional mailing
> list can work very well if everyone involved takes the time to develop a
> custom tool chain that fits their own workflow perfectly and if they spend
> the time learning the deficiency of the systems to ensure they correctly
> work around them. The web forum thing can theoretically achieve much less
> of a theoretical “maximum” for productivity, but it typically means that
> you can bring productivity gains to those who can’t or won’t spend time
> maintaining a custom mailing stack.
>
This is an excellent point, and is similar to one that was made on a
similar discussion at the start of the year
<https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2016-January/038210.html>.
That thread focused more on Discourse <https://www.discourse.org/> as a
potential alternative to the mailing list for python-ideas, but a lot of
the arguments being made here on both sides are a repetition of what was
discussed there (and probably of what has been discussed several times over
the course of many years).

Nick
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