Mailman 3 June 2016 - Overload-sig

Experimenting on real-world groups with potential solutions
by Brett Cannon June 28, 2016

June 28, 2016

I'm willing to offer up python-ideas as an experimental group of people to try a new approach to communicating if we want to try something out on an existing mailing list that isn't as critical as python-dev. I also know that Donald has expressed interest in trying Discourse on distutils-sig as have I (I believe lack of time is what has prevented this experiment from occurring on Donald's side, definitely the reason I haven't tried Discourse on python-ideas).

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Discourse is Deployed
by Donald Stufft June 25, 2016

June 25, 2016

I’ve deployed discourse at https://discuss.python.org/ so you can go over there and create a new account. I suggest reading https://discuss.python.org/t/trying-out-discourse/13 first as I wrote down any notes that I thought were important about how I have it currently configured. — Donald Stufft

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Should we import old MM discussions into e.g. Discourse?
by Guido van Rossum June 24, 2016

June 24, 2016

I'm trying something new here: moving a reply to a different subject. On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Donald Stufft <donald(a)stufft.io> wrote: > >> For a short time period I think it’s fine to try and test >> the waters, but long term we should pick one tool, whatever that tool is, >> for this >> kind of discussion [1] and bless that and get rid of … [View More]

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Issue tracker vs. real-time chat
by Guido van Rossum June 24, 2016

June 24, 2016

(We accidentally started this discussion on private email. I assume noone has a problem with me reposting this to the sig.) I'd like to put in a vote *for* systems or paradigms that behave more or less like issue trackers (AFAIC even Reddit and StackOverflow fall in this pattern) and *against* group chat systems (IRC, HipChat, Zulip, Slack, Skype, Hangouts). To be sure, I'm fine with the existence of chat systems, but I find participating in them exhausting, and they tend to have a very high … [View More]

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Sampling multiple options...
by Skip Montanaro June 23, 2016

June 23, 2016

I was going to ask why not try Discourse, but Guido beat me to it. Good thing I poked the "new mail" button in Gmail before hitting send. :-) I don't know what the timeframe for this sig is supposed to be, or how many options you want to more-or-less thoroughly examine, but it might be worthwhile to move it from one option to the next over the course of a few days|weeks|months. It might highlight a few things: * How hard is it to get started (spool up a new tool or group within a tool)? * … [View More]

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