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?

Eli