[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] devguide: Add a doc listing the various places Python's development is discussed. (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue Jan 11 20:20:52 CET 2011


Tweaked. Will show up in my next push.

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:53, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

+The primary mailing list where discussions about Python's development occur is +python-dev

suggest adding ", mirrored as newsgroup gmane.comp.python.devel." ... +python-ideas. Technical support questions should also not be asked here and +instead should go to comp.lang.python or python-help. 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. + +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 Again, /c.l.p/python-list/ +subscribe to this list and are known to reply to these emails to make comments +about various issues they catch in the commit. ;-) ... +.. python-help: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-help +.. python-ideas: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas python-list: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list +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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