On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Fred Drake <fred@fdrake.net> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
Is there much point in keeping catalog-sig and distutils-sig separate?
No.
The last time this was brought up, there were objections, but I don't remember what they were. I'll let people who think there's a point worry about that.
Not sure if there's some official process for requesting it or not, but I think we should merge the two lists and just make packaging-sig to umbrella the entire packaging topics.
There is the meta-sig, but the description is out-dated:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/meta-sig
and the last message in the archives is dated 2011, and sparked no discussion:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/meta-sig/2011-June.txt
+1 on merging the lists.
Can we do it by just dropping catalog-sig and keeping distutils-sig? I'm afraid we might lose some important distutils-sig population if the process involves renaming the list, resubscribing, etc. I also *really* don't want to invalidate archive links to the distutils-sig archive. All in all, +1 on not having two lists, but I'm really worried about "breaking" distutils-sig. We're still going to be talking about "distribution utilities", after all.