[Python-Dev] c.l.p.a -- what needs to be done ? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@beopen.com
Fri, 25 Aug 2000 08:34:44 -0500

I've asked this question before: when are we going to see comp.lang.python.announce back online ?

I know that everyone is busy with getting the betas ready, but looking at www.python.org I find that the "latest" special announcement is dated 22-Mar-2000. People will get the false idea that Python isn't moving anywhere... at least not in the spirit of OSS' "release early and often". Could someone please summarize what needs to be done to post a message to comp.lang.python.announce without taking the path via the official (currently defunct) moderator ? I've had a look at the c.l.p.a postings and the only special header they include is the "Approved: fleck@informatik.uni-bonn.de" header. If this is all it takes to post to a moderated newsgroup, fixing Mailman to do the trick should be really simple. I'm willing to help here to get this done before the Python 2.0beta1 announcement.

Coincidence! Barry just wrote the necessary hacks that allow a Mailman list to be used to moderate a newsgroup, and installed them in python.org. He's testing the setup today and I expect that we'll be able to solicit for moderators tonight!

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)