On Nov 2, 2018, at 9:27 PM, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:

Just an FYI, I’m going to ask the discuss.python.org admins to add a Packaging category to that discourse instance for the discussion of packaging in Python, basically as a sister discussion location to distutils-sig. I plan to primarily participate and centralize my own personal discussions there, although others are free to continue to discuss wherever they would like (although I think it would be great if folks would all jump over there as well!).

I’m not going to request any sub categories at this time, both because I don’t think our traffic is high enough to warrant it, and also because I think that tagging will be a more useful mechanism for us since we can tag things with relevant projects or whatever (or not tag things at all) and topics can have multiple tags.

For anyone who wants to get emails in something like a mailing list like style, logging into discourse (you can use Github even), going to that page and in the top right corner, and selecting “Watching” will give you something resembling a mailing list like behavior where you’ll get an email for every post in every topic (unless you go into a particular topic and unwatch that specific topic), and you’ll be able to reply via email and such.

For folks who want to track their read/unread and primarily interact with discourse via the web, either selecting notification levels per topic or going to that same circle in the top right hand corner of the packaging category and selecting “tracking” will automatically track read/unread status for every topic in the packaging category (it won’t send you emails unless someone @mentions you though).

There is also the option to “watch first post” which will send you an email for the first post of each new topic, but won’t automatically send you any further email or track the topic unless you explicitly set a topic’s subscription level to something else.