[Python-Dev] security SIG? (was: Discussion overload) (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Fri Jun 17 23:06:32 EDT 2016

On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 at 18:13 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On 16 June 2016 at 19:00, Kevin Ollivier <kevin-lists at theolliviers.com> wrote: > Hi Guido, > > From: <gvanrossum at gmail.com> on behalf of Guido van Rossum > <guido at python.org> > Reply-To: <guido at python.org> > Date: Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 5:27 PM > To: Kevin Ollivier <kevin-lists at theolliviers.com> > Cc: Python Dev <python-dev at python.org> > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Discussion overload > > Hi Kevin, > > I often feel the same way. Are you using GMail? It combines related messages > in threads and lets you mute threads. I often use this feature so I can > manage my inbox. (I presume other mailers have the same features, but I > don't know if all of them do.) There are also many people who read the list > on a website, e.g. gmane. (Though I think that sometimes the delays incurred > there add to the noise -- e.g. when a decision is reached on the list > sometimes people keep responding to earlier threads.) > > > I fear I did quite a poor job of making my point. :( I've been on open > source mailing lists since the late 90s, so I've learned strategies for > dealing with mailing list overload. I've got my mail folders, my mail rules, > etc. Having been on many mailing lists over the years, I've seen many > productive discussions and many unproductive ones, and over time you start > to see patterns. You also see what happens to those communities over time.

This is one of the major reasons we have the option of escalating things to the PEP process (and that's currently in train for os.urandom), as well as the SIGs for when folks really need to dig into topics that risk incurring a relatively low signal-to-noise ration on python-dev. It's also why python-ideas was turned into a separate list, since folks without the time for more speculative discussions and brainstorming can safely ignore it, while remaining confident that any ideas considered interesting enough for further review will be brought to python-dev's attention.

Do we need a security SIG? E.g. would people like Christian and Cory like to have a separate place to talk about the ssl stuff brought up at the language summit?

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