[Python-Dev] Re: How to lose potential users/developers (original) (raw)

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl
Fri, 7 Feb 2003 17:05:21 +0100

On Friday, Feb 7, 2003, at 13:36 Europe/Amsterdam, Guido van Rossum wrote:

So, crazy idea for the morning. Split that sentence up: have one list (probably the existing python-dev) where the future of the language is discussed. Have another (python-implementors) where anything that does not have a short-to-medium term effect on the code in Python CVS is strictly forbidden. Can this be made to work? Or maybe the last month or so has been the exception and this list will just naturally reqcquire some of it's focus. If we were to split this up, I'd rather create a new list for wild and crazy ideas. But I'm -0 on splitting -- it wouldn't help me because I'd want to be on both lists anyway, and I'm not sure how many others are helped by it either -- I imagine that most people would want to be on both lists.

I'm +1 on the two lists, even though I would be on both lists too. However, if the load on python-implementors went down I would actually be able to always read that first thing in the morning (afternoon/evening/night:-), so I wouldn't miss any important messages on 2.3aX distribution building started, or sourceforge downtime, or known problems in the test suite, while I would read python-dev later.

Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman