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Tweaked. Will show up in my next push.
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:53, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
suggest adding
+The primary mailing list where discussions about Python's development occur is
+python-dev\_
", mirrored as newsgroup gmane.comp.python.devel."
...Suggest replace "comp.lang.python" with "python-list, mirrored as gmane.comp.python.general". c.l.p is another mirror, but does not get the spam filtering of p-l and g.c.p.g and is indeed the source or transmitter (from google groups) of the spam that needs to be filtered.
+python-ideas\_. Technical support questions should also not be asked here and
+instead should go to comp.lang.python\_ or python-help\_.
Again, /c.l.p/python-list/
+
+The python-committers\_ mailing list is publicly archived but only open to core
+developers to subscribe to. If something only affect core developers (e.g., the
+tree is frozen for commits, etc.), it is discussed here instead of python-dev
+to keep traffic down on the latter.
+
+Python-ideas\_ is a mailing list open to the public to discuss ideas on changing
+Python. If a new idea does not start here (or comp.lang.python\_), it will get
;-)
+subscribe to this list and are known to reply to these emails to make comments
+about various issues they catch in the commit.
...\_python-list: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
+.. \_python-help: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-help
+.. \_python-ideas: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas
+Newsgroups
+----------
"The free news site news.gmane.org mirrors (and archives) about 300 python-related mailing lists, including most or all of those at mail.python.org. Most are listed as gmane.comp.python.\*."
I would barely, if at all, mentions c.l.p: it is spammy, only mirrors 1 list rather than 300, and is not an archive in itself.
Terry
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