On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
Le mercredi 26 décembre 2012 à 08:08 -0800, Eli Bendersky a écrit :
> At the risk of stating something that I imagine everyone already
>         knows, this list is itself publicly viewable:
>
>         http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
>
>         So in some sense what we write here is already being said
>         beyond this
>         list (though not actively).  For example, the thread we're
>         engaging in
>         right now is the second result when Googling "python anatoly".
>
>         I guess my point is that what's going on is already pretty
>         open to the
>         outside (from a read-only perspective).
>
>
>
> Ouch, this is important to keep in mind. Thanks for the reminder,
> Chris.
>
> This may be a different discussion altogether, but I'm pretty sure
> that sometimes people write to this list assuming it's private to
> committers only. Should it be?

I personally think it is very sane for this list to be public.

I agree there're very strong reasons to keep it public. I just wanted to emphasize Chris's note because I'm pretty sure that some devs assume it's not public when writing on controversial topics (like the recent conversation).

Eli