"Barry A. Warsaw" wrote:
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I agree. I think anybody who'd be interested in python-lang is already going to be a member of python-dev
Huh? What about Greg Ewing, Amit Patel, Martijn Faassen, William Tanksley, Mike Fletcher, Neel Krishnaswami, the various stackless groupies and a million others. This is just a short list of people who have made reasonable language suggestions recently. Those suggestions are going into the bit-bucket unless one of us happens to notice and champion it here. But we're too busy thinking about 1.6 to think about long-term ideas anyhow. Plus, we hand down decisions about (e.g. string.join) and they have the exact, parallel discussion over there. All the while, anyone from PythonDev is telling them: "We've already been through this stuff. We've already discussed this." which only (understandably) annoys them more.
and any discussion will probably be crossposted to the point where it makes no difference.
I think that python-dev's role should change. I think that it would handle day to day implementation stuff -- nothing long term. I mean if the noise level on python-lang was too high then we could retreat to python-dev again but I'd like to think we wouldn't have to. A couple of sharp words from Guido or Tim could end a flamewar pretty quickly. -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for himself "I want to give beauty pageants the respectability they deserve." - Brooke Ross, Miss Canada International