Oh brilliant. I'll unsubscribe from this list then. It sounds like the only people using it will be those folks who think their tooling preferences are more important than creating a joined-up Python community; I can survive without their input.
Le 04/12/2022 à 16:55, Barney Gale a écrit :
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> I don't want to post to multiple
> places in order to reach the devs.
Nobody proposed that. In order to reach the devs, you use discourse (or
have someone else do it on your behalf).
Just let the "second circle" of the community keep their mailing list,
as this second circle just won't switch to a specialized, and quite
unflexible tool.
Yeah, without most core devs, this list might be more akin to
python-ideas than the old python-dev. But it makes sense to keep the
bigger following it has grown over the years.
> I prefer mailing lists personally, but theyve been losing out to web
> forums for 20 years now.
This is historically untrue. In technical communities, web forums have
been considered second class tools until some 5 years ago, with
mailing-lists being seen as lighter, more flexible and more capable.
Invision Power Board, PHPBB and others supplanted mailing lists in the early 00s. Programming communities took longer because they disproportionately attract folks with strong and inflexible preferences.