Splitting c.l.py...
Neil Hodgson
neilh at scintilla.org
Fri Jul 7 23:52:44 EDT 2000
> Beats me. Hmm... here's a possibility: ... Essentially the newsgroup
would
> be a read-only view of the python-dev mailing list.
But would it be of interest to anyone? python-dev has a much worse
signal-to-noise ratio than comp.lang.python IMHO. One morning this week I
opened up my mailer in the morning to see over 100 messages in python-dev
and less than 80 in c.l.py.
The traffic in python-dev alternates between checkin chat (there's a CVS
lock here, that patch breaks on X, when will you finish Y?) and
language/library design issues. I can see a reason for some of the detailed
design issues to be decided on the same forum as the checkin chat with a
limited group of people, but some of the larger issues should be debated in
a wider forum. Was there any reason for "urllib.browse() issues" to be on
python-dev?
Possibly comp.lang.python is also a bad forum for discussing future
changes to Python and should concentrate on solving peoples current problems
and avoiding long winded discussions on new functionality. So a
comp.lang.python.future (or similar mailing list) could provide a way for
/all/ Pythoneers to be involved in the evolution of the language.
Neil
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