<div dir="ltr"><div>One data point in all of this is Victor's PEP 8015. Here on the mailing list I seem to be the first and only person to reply since the PEP was posted on Monday. But over on Discourse there have been 3 people who have replied and there's already been some back-and-forth.</div><div><br></div><div>So with a sample size of one, it looks like Discourse isn't discouraging anyone, otherwise I would have assumed people who don't want to start with Discourse would have simply started a discussion here on the mailing list about Victor's PEP.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 20:24, Jack Diederich <<a href="mailto:jackdied@gmail.com">jackdied@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I'm worried about the new format combined with governance discussions. As best I can tell 51 CPython committers have signed up for an account [I think that is a big number, btw] but only 17 have posted anything; That 17 is about 5 more people than put their name on a governance PEP. And maybe 5 people have half the total posts. This does not feel like a discussion at all.<br><br>I don't think it was deliberate, but it looks like the new format is actively discouraging everyone but those most deeply invested with the most free time from participating. <div><br></div><div>-Jack</div></div>
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