Re: [Python-Dev] Announcing the python-static-type-checking google group
Edward K. Ream wrote:
Hello all,
GvR has asked me to announce the python-static-type-checking google group http://groups.google.com/group/python-static-type-checking to python-dev.
Consider it announced. Anyone from python-dev who likes may become a member.
Is there any reason why the compiler-sig mailing list wasn't chosen as a venue for such discussions? I know it has "compiler" in the title, but the mandate overlaps significantly with what you intend to discuss. It's obviously your choice where you host discussions and who you invite, and I know that the special interest group mailing lists aren't exactly well advertised these days, what with the lack of agility around updating the Web content that advertises such things (or the lack of visibility of the Wiki content), but I feel that you might have a more productive discussion if you don't insist on Google Groups membership and also allow a wider selection of participants. Please consider this as friendly advice: I too would like to see progress in the area concerned. Paul
Hey Paul,
This list is going to be high volume super focused and run by Edward;
so far he's mostly been thinking out loud. I don't think that Edward
would be comfortable doing that quite in the same way on th existing
compiler-list. But by all means sign up for his list!
--Guido
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Paul Boddie
Edward K. Ream wrote:
Hello all,
GvR has asked me to announce the python-static-type-checking google group http://groups.google.com/group/python-static-type-checking to python-dev.
Consider it announced. Anyone from python-dev who likes may become a member.
Is there any reason why the compiler-sig mailing list wasn't chosen as a venue for such discussions? I know it has "compiler" in the title, but the mandate overlaps significantly with what you intend to discuss.
It's obviously your choice where you host discussions and who you invite, and I know that the special interest group mailing lists aren't exactly well advertised these days, what with the lack of agility around updating the Web content that advertises such things (or the lack of visibility of the Wiki content), but I feel that you might have a more productive discussion if you don't insist on Google Groups membership and also allow a wider selection of participants.
Please consider this as friendly advice: I too would like to see progress in the area concerned.
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Paul Boddie, 01.07.2012 02:22:
Is there any reason why the compiler-sig mailing list wasn't chosen as a venue
Even I didn't know that this list even existed. And looking at the archives now, it's hard to see any relevant discussion in all the spam it received until it apparently died away in (almost) silence a couple of years ago.
It's obviously your choice where you host discussions and who you invite, and I know that the special interest group mailing lists aren't exactly well advertised these days
True, but many (most?) of them are simply not very well frequented, which reduces the interest in joining them even further. Both SIG mailing lists that I read only receive a mail every so many months, often enough without any reply. And almost all of these mails deal with questions that would better be discussed on python-list to leverage the substantially higher number of eyeballs there. I think that's the basic problem: as long as more experts are lurking on python-list than on the dedicated SIG-ML, it's better not to use the SIG-ML for discussions but to go to python-list (or maybe python-ideas or python-dev) straight away. Stefan
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