On 8/15/16, 10:42 AM, "Donald Stufft" <donald@stufft.io> wrote: [snip]
(c) Discourse. Currently inactive. Consensus seems to be that it has many nice features, but overall the level of enthusiasm was not so high. (Sorry for the vagueness, please comment!)
I liked it and only stopped using it because I moved over to MM3 as the next experimental instance to try out (plus everyone else has seems to have moved over here).
I feel the same FWIW. Regardless of what happens here I may end up trying to move distutils-sig (or the packaging related discussion, even if it’s not still called “distutils-sig”) onto a Discourse instance and combining the PyPA dev channels with it. That can either take the form of piggybacking off of whatever python-dev does for a Discourse instance if we choose that, or standing up a dedicated instance.
Just wanted to chime in and say that I also liked Discourse, and think that some non-MUA / email option should at least be tried out with a broader group. GitHub issues is also certainly worth a shot, but it's so simple that it may be difficult for a project the size of Python to effectively manage releases and such with it. It probably needs a closer look first. The one thing I would suggest about Discourse is that we make the notifications more verbose by default. Better to get an email notification and then say 'how do I turn this off' than to not get one and not realize you have a reply because you happened to leave the forums open in a tab somewhere, like I did. ;-) Regards, Kevin