[python-committers] A different way to focus discussions (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner vstinner at redhat.com
Tue May 22 18:09:43 EDT 2018

2018-05-22 23:58 GMT+02:00 Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io>:

FWIW, I think this is a key thing— Mailing lists are not easily moderatable. There’s no way to pause discussion, redirect, etc besides generating more email (and the tooling to do it is lackluster, it’s pretty much just asking people to do something, and hope everyone complies). Fracturing the discussion amongst multiple repos is one way of handling that, another option is better tooling for moderation.

Another solution is to use Special Interest Group (SIG) mailing lists to discuss PEPs.

distutils-sig accepted many PEPs which were never posted to python-dev. Someone told me that PEPs are not posted to python-dev to avoid restarting discussions from scratch ;-) I have been told when I asked why TOML has been chosen instead of YAML for a PEP ;-) It was maybe the PEP 518, I don't recall.

Do we need a new more specific mailing lists to discuss PEPs changing the Python language?

Or a generic noisy-pep mailing lists for PEPs with high traffic? :-)

Victor

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