[Python-Dev] Summaries and the New Lists (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue Apr 24 23:04:40 CEST 2007

On 4/24/07, Calvin Spealman <ironfroggy at gmail.com> wrote:

Now that I should be able to actually keep up with my summary duties, I need to figure out how to tackle the changing landscape of the development lists. The old summaries were no problem, before my time. When the python-3000 list was created, nearly everything was just conceptual, floaty talk that didn't have place in the concrete world of real development conversation in python-dev. The day recently came when python-3000 got to the point of being "real" enough to warrant a third list, python-ideas, for real floaty ideas and now conversations routinely cross all three. Something might be brought up in ideas, move to 3000 to be solidified, and then to dev to discuss backporting to 2.6 or so. Obviously, we're missing out on a lot for the summaries.

So, the question I pose is how would everyone like to see this resolved? As I see it, there are two things I can do. I can either summaries each list separately, and try to sort out the cross overs. Or, I can start pulling in all three development lists into all the summaries. I prefer the second option, but I want to clear with everyone else. I hope no one has a problem with getting more with the summaries from now on? If not, I'll begin with the second half of April.

All in one is fine. Just be very wary of getting burned out. I especially would watch out for python-ideas as any random idea can end up there and just go on and on with no resolution. I think only worrying about python-dev is fine, and if you want to pull in python-3000 that's great. But I personally consider python-ideas too wild to worry about summarizing.

-Brett

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