<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 29, 2016, at 12:56 PM, Brett Cannon <<a href="mailto:brett@python.org" class="">brett@python.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 at 08:35 Ethan Furman <<a href="mailto:ethan@stoneleaf.us" class="">ethan@stoneleaf.us</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex;">On 01/29/2016 08:19 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:<br class=""><br class="">> I do have to say I find the idea of using a dedicated StackExchange<br class="">> site intriguing. I have been a big fan of its cofounder Joel Spolsky<br class="">> for many years. A StackExchange discussion has some advantages over a<br class="">> thread in a mailing list -- it's got a clear URL that everyone can<br class="">> easily find and reference (as opposed to the variety of archive sites<br class="">> that are currently used), and there is a bit more structure to the<br class="">> discussion (question, answers, comments). I believe there are some<br class="">> good examples of other communities of experts that have really<br class="">> benefited (e.g.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mathoverflow.net/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">mathoverflow.net</a>).<br class=""><br class="">I am also a big fan of StackExchange, but the StackExchange sites are<br class="">about questions and answers, while Python-Ideas is about ideas and<br class="">discussion.<br class=""><br class="">Given that extensive comments on a question or answer is discouraged,<br class="">multiple answers trying to follow a thread of discussion would be<br class="">confusing, and the person asking the question would be the one selecting<br class="">the "approved" answer (which may have nothing to do with the actual<br class="">outcome), I don't see this as being a good fit.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A better fit would be something like<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.uservoice.com/" class="">https://www.uservoice.com/</a> if people wanted a focused "vote on ideas" solution, or something like<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.discourse.org/" class="">https://www.discourse.org/</a> for a more modern forum platform that has the concept of likes for a thread. And then there's <a href="https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty" class="">https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty</a> as Barry suggested to add the equivalent of what Discourse has to Mailman 3.</div></div></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Python-ideas mailing list</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="mailto:Python-ideas@python.org" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Python-ideas@python.org</a><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><a href="https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas</a><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Code of Conduct:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">I’ve been thinking about trying to set up a discourse instance for the packaging stuff, for whatever it’s worth.</div><div class="">
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