<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:01 AM Giampaolo Rodola' <<a href="mailto:g.rodola@gmail.com">g.rodola@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 10:59 PM Antoine Pitrou <<a href="mailto:antoine@python.org" target="_blank">antoine@python.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Le 11/02/2019 à 20:00, Barry Warsaw a écrit :<br>
> On Feb 11, 2019, at 09:48, Victor Stinner <<a href="mailto:vstinner@redhat.com" target="_blank">vstinner@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> tl; dr How can we decide if we should stop using mailing list or if we<br>
>> should stop using <a href="http://discuss.python.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">discuss.python.org</a>?<br>
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> Point of order: I think we need a PEP for this decision. Such a PEP would organize and consolidate the arguments both pro and con of the three choices. It should also cover whether the current Discourse experiment translates to larger mailing lists like python-dev, -ideas, and -list (for which I personally have uncertainty about).<br>
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Same uncertainty here. I don't think Discourse works well for long threads.<br>
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Here is a 161-message Discourse thread (at the time of this writing):<br>
<a href="https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-517-backend-bootstrapping/789" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-517-backend-bootstrapping/789</a><br>
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I know I can browse easily through a 161-message mailing-list or<br>
newsgroup thread using a traditional threaded view, read what I want,<br>
come back later to read the rest, etc. But Discourse's linear<br>
presentation pretty much kills that ability. It doesn't even allow<br>
*seeing* the structure of the discussion.<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>What bothers me about medium/long threads (say > 20 messages) is an "expand all" button<br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>I meant "[the lack of] an "expand all" button (sorry).<br></div><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Giampaolo - <a href="http://grodola.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://grodola.blogspot.com</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>