[Python-Dev] High volumes and off topic discussions (original) (raw)

Maciej Fijalkowski fijall at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 18:17:39 CET 2013

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Le Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:36:10 +0200, Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com> a écrit :

Hi

I know this is a hard topic, but python-dev is already incredibly high-volume and dragging discussion off-topic is making following important stuff (while ignoring unimportant stuff) very hard. For example in a recent topic "cffi in stdlib" I find a mail that says "we have to find a sufficiently silly species of snake". It's even funny, but it definitely makes it very hard to follow for those of us who don't read python-dev 24/7. Would it be reasonable for python-dev to generally try to stay on topic (for example if the thread is called "silly species of snakes", I absolutely don't mind people posting there whatever they feel like as long as I'm not expected to read every single message). I'm afraid you're trying to devise derogatory distinctions regarding drifting discussions. Seriously, yes, I approve of changing the subject line, although I forgot to do it this time. For the record, you can also read the list through a NNTP gateway using Gmane, it can make things easier.

How does that help with knowing what mails to read what mails not to read? the agenda thread is a great example - I care about the agenda, because I'm even mentioned there, but I don't care about the legal mailing list that occupies 2/3 of the thread. People who like to care about legal stuff would be baffled that noone told them, because it was buried inside a thread about a conference they might not go to etc. Anyway, I'm not even a regular here so do what works for you.

Regards Antoine.

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