But whatever, I hate the pointless duplication and just want to kill the overlap.
Agree, +1 to merging into one list. On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
On Mar 28, 2013, at 7:28 PM, PJ Eby <pje@telecommunity.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <jacob@jacobian.org> wrote:
C'mon, folks, we're arguing about a name. That's about as close to literal bikeshedding as we could get.
I'm not arguing about the *name*. I just don't see the point in making everybody subscribe to a new list and change their mail filters (and update every book and webpage out there that mentions the distutils-sig), because a few people want to *change* the name -- a change that AFAICT doesn't actually provide any tangible benefit to anybody whatsoever.
How about we just let whoever has the keys make the change in whatever way's easiest and most logical for them?
Because it's not up to just the person with the keys. Neither SIG is a mere mailing list, it's a Python special interest group, and SIGs have their own formation and termination processes.
In particular, if you're going to start a new SIG, one of the requirements to be met is "in particular, no other SIG nor the general Python newsgroup is already more suitable" (per the Python SIG Creation Guidelines). It's hard to argue that distutils-sig isn't already more suitable than whatever is being proposed to take its place.
A requirement for a SIG is also that it has a clear goal and a start and end date. distutils-sig's goal is the distutils module. And the "end date" requirements seems to be completely ignored anymore so arguing strict adherence to the rules seems to be a wash.
I suggested packaging-sig because discussion jumps back and forth between distutils-sig and catalog-sig and neither name nor stated goal really reflected what the sig was actually about which was packaging in python in general. I also suggested packaging because it matched the other current sigs which are generic topics and not about a single module. But whatever, I hate the pointless duplication and just want to kill the overlap.
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