there's been lots of discussion about that in the past.
Indeed. Personally, I’m all for keeping the mailing list. See past discussions for the advantage.
I do think it might be a good idea to move to a gitHub repo once a topic gets past the vague idea stage to the hammer out a proposal stage — which indeed often happens once someone starts drafting a PEP.
But a freewheeling discussion in a gitHub issue isn’t any easier to navigate than a list discussion.
This latest effort will only help if it grows to critical mass — but newbies can help!
For example, if you see a post here that says something to the effect of: “this has been discussed in the past on this list”, you can search and find hat discussion, and summarize the results for future readers.
Hmm, maybe the “we should use something other than a list” discussion is one of those ;-)
-CHB
You can check out
https://discuss.python.org, which is the current most popular idea about an alternative. It has not been decided if the mailing lists will be dropped or not though, as far as I know.
Lys
Chris,
As a new member to this list, I can tell you that searching for relevant old
content was effectively impossible, so I'm all for some way of doing that.
Please can I make a more radical suggestion, though: Drop the mailing list.
How about a GitHub repo - a specific one (with no code), specifically for
early ideas? Then, if an idea was accepted and turned into an issue to be
implemented, it could link back to that original discussion. GitHub is
easily searchable. It can email you if someone comments on an issue you have
raised, etc.
An alternative might be a StackOverflow section, but that wouldn't provide
such tight integration in the case of an issue being raised.
The new work you're doing would be a good way to populate the repo with its
initial content.
Richard
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