On Sun., 29 Nov. 2020, 6:31 am Paul Ganssle,
Considering the people involved and the nature of the list, I suspect that adding a new @python.org mailing list would be better than discourse. In my experience, it's very difficult to just follow a single topic on the discourse, and most people complain that the e-mail integration is not great. For something like, "Here's a head's up about something affecting distributors", I don't think Discourse offers much in the way of advantages.
My guess is that distributors would be happiest with a relatively low-volume e-mail list that would point to discussions happening elsewhere (or that announces changes relevant to distributors).
For Linux distros specifically, we do have linux-sig, but we've never had great general channels for consistently reaching Windows, cloud & cross-platform distributors - those contacts have generally been more ad hoc & personal. We've occasionally had recommendations for redistributors in specific PEPs, so having some level of structured documentation around CPython redistribution would likely make sense. For example: * a page on devguide.python.org http://dev.python.org * a reference to that page from the What's New for each release, that either mentions any changes since the last release, or else notes that the recommendations are unchanged Cheers, Nick. Cheers, Nick. http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/