<div dir="ltr">Actually, they do:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/ThePyPA">https://twitter.com/ThePyPA</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>But I don't know if they are in the habit of thinking to use it every time something worthy happens.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Chris Jerdonek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.jerdonek@gmail.com" target="_blank">chris.jerdonek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Randy Syring <<a href="mailto:randy@thesyrings.us">randy@thesyrings.us</a>> wrote:<br>
> I'd like to pick up a conversation that was happening on another thread:<br>
><br>
> I've only been on this list for about a year. This PEP (and others<br>
> like it) has been in motion for quite a while. I think the blog would<br>
> miss far more people than the mailing list would and I'm not sure I<br>
> agree with "how quickly things change". There doesn't seem to be much<br>
> content for the blog and it seems like something that would just<br>
> become neglected. What topics do you really think would be better<br>
> suited for a blog post than a message to here and related announcement<br>
> lists?<br>
><br>
> The blog posts could automatically get copied over to<br>
> Twitter and mailing lists using e.g. IFTTT, and it would<br>
> be possible to subscribe using RSS/Atom feeds.<br>
><br>
> The advantage of a blog is having news entries persist and be<br>
> easy to find, while at the same time simplifying the whole<br>
> publishing process.<br>
><br>
> Anyway, just a suggestion.<br>
><br>
><br>
> <a href="http://pypa.io" target="_blank">pypa.io</a> also says:<br>
><br>
> They host projects on github and bitbucket, and discuss issues on the<br>
> pypa-dev and distutils-sig mailing lists.<br>
><br>
><br>
> I think the issue with the current mailing lists is one of signal-to-noise<br>
> ratio. Let me give you a little background:<br>
><br>
> I maintain a small number of pypi published packages. I'm very interested<br>
> in using best practices and keeping up with the more significant changes in<br>
> the Python packaging ecosystem. I joined the distutils-sig list to stay<br>
> informed.<br>
><br>
> However, the more detailed discussions that happen on the distutils-sig list<br>
> are not of much value to me. I know they are important and I very much<br>
> appreciate those who are pushing things forward, it's just too much detail<br>
> for my context.<br>
><br>
> So, I'm on the distituls-sig list, but there is a lot of "noise" for me and<br>
> not much "signal."Â I would rather be a part of some channel for receiving<br>
> announcements that relate to the broader community of those who maintain &<br>
> release packages and need to stay abreast of python packing ecosystem & best<br>
> practice changes.<br>
><br>
> Therefore, I'd like to propose something like a packaging-announce mailing<br>
> list. This could be linked to the PyPA Twitter account.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Just to clarify, PyPA doesn't have a Twitter account yet, right?<br>
<br>
--Chris<br>
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