Hi everyone, I would like to propose to retire (read only) the user mailing list: scipy-user@python.org <mailto:scipy-user@python.org> We have had a few spam events, there is little activity with some user questions, promotion of some packages, and other general questions, but not much that would justify maintaining the list I would say. Instead I would propose to migrate this flux of messages to our Slack and Discord channels or even to the Scientific Python discuss server. As for general questions, there is always StackOverflow. i.e. we still have many options and reducing the scope a bit will, IMHO, help everyone keep track of things. Cheers, Pamphile
On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 12:41 PM Pamphile Roy <roy.pamphile@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I would like to propose to retire (read only) the user mailing list: scipy-user@python.org
We have had a few spam events, there is little activity with some user questions, promotion of some packages, and other general questions, but not much that would justify maintaining the list I would say. Instead I would propose to migrate this flux of messages to our Slack and Discord channels or even to the Scientific Python discuss server. As for general questions, there is always StackOverflow. i.e. we still have many options and reducing the scope a bit will, IMHO, help everyone keep track of things.
+1 from me - I think it's time to do this, scipy-user had a good run. Cheers, Ralf
On Mon, Apr 3, 2023, at 04:40, Pamphile Roy wrote:
Instead I would propose to migrate this flux of messages to our Slack and Discord channels or even to the Scientific Python discuss server. As for general questions, there is always StackOverflow. i.e. we still have many options and reducing the scope a bit will, IMHO, help everyone keep track of things.
If a category or tag at https://discuss.scientific-python.org/c/user/17 would be helpful, I'd be happy to set that up. StackOverflow can be a bit rough for new users sometimes. Best regards, Stéfan
Hi everyone, Thank you for the proposal Stéfan. We discussed this today during our meeting and that would be great! (I think I can do it myself, let’s discuss details offline.) The one thing we are going to make clear is that these spaces (Discuss, Discord, SO) do not bring any guarantees in terms of support nor maintainers’ availability. At least for now, only the mailing list, GitHub and Slack bring a sort of official support. As for the retirement of SciPy-Users, more maintainers gave their +1 during the meeting. Hence I will follow up with the owner of the list (Matti I think) and we will make it read-only. We are also going to see if we can have an automatic response if someone post to this list. The response would point out to our other spaces. Cheers, Pamphile
On 03.04.2023, at 22:09, Stefan van der Walt <stefanv@berkeley.edu> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 3, 2023, at 04:40, Pamphile Roy wrote:
Instead I would propose to migrate this flux of messages to our Slack and Discord channels or even to the Scientific Python discuss server. As for general questions, there is always StackOverflow. i.e. we still have many options and reducing the scope a bit will, IMHO, help everyone keep track of things.
If a category or tag at
https://discuss.scientific-python.org/c/user/17
would be helpful, I'd be happy to set that up. StackOverflow can be a bit rough for new users sometimes.
Best regards, Stéfan
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Pamphile Roy -
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Stefan van der Walt