Re: [python-committers] privacy

On 12/26/2012 06:17 PM, Eli Bendersky wrote:

> 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.

Definitely. There have been enough complaints about secrecy surrounding the PSF, no need to start with CPython development.

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).

Another benefit of using lists through gmane: if it's on there, it must be public :)

cheers, Georg