[Distutils] PyPA Announcements & Twitter

[Marc Abramowitz]

Actually, they do:

https://twitter.com/ThePyPA

But I don't know if they are in the habit of thinking to use it every time
something worthy happens.

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Randy Syring <randy at thesyrings.us>
> wrote:
> > I'd like to pick up a conversation that was happening on another thread:
> >
> > I've only been on this list for about a year. This PEP (and others
> > like it) has been in motion for quite a while. I think the blog would
> > miss far more people than the mailing list would and I'm not sure I
> > agree with "how quickly things change". There doesn't seem to be much
> > content for the blog and it seems like something that would just
> > become neglected. What topics do you really think would be better
> > suited for a blog post than a message to here and related announcement
> > lists?
> >
> > The blog posts could automatically get copied over to
> > Twitter and mailing lists using e.g. IFTTT, and it would
> > be possible to subscribe using RSS/Atom feeds.
> >
> > The advantage of a blog is having news entries persist and be
> > easy to find, while at the same time simplifying the whole
> > publishing process.
> >
> > Anyway, just a suggestion.
> >
> >
> > pypa.io also says:
> >
> > They host projects on github and bitbucket, and discuss issues on the
> > pypa-dev and distutils-sig mailing lists.
> >
> >
> > I think the issue with the current mailing lists is one of
> signal-to-noise
> > ratio.  Let me give you a little background:
> >
> > I maintain a small number of pypi published packages.  I'm very
> interested
> > in using best practices and keeping up with the more significant changes
> in
> > the Python packaging ecosystem.  I joined the distutils-sig list to stay
> > informed.
> >
> > However, the more detailed discussions that happen on the distutils-sig
> list
> > are not of much value to me.  I know they are important and I very much
> > appreciate those who are pushing things forward, it's just too much
> detail
> > for my context.
> >
> > So, I'm on the distituls-sig list, but there is a lot of "noise" for me
> and
> > not much "signal."  I would rather be a part of some channel for
> receiving
> > announcements that relate to the broader community of those who maintain
> &
> > release packages and need to stay abreast of python packing ecosystem &
> best
> > practice changes.
> >
> > Therefore, I'd like to propose something like a packaging-announce
> mailing
> > list.  This could be linked to the PyPA Twitter account.
>
> Just to clarify, PyPA doesn't have a Twitter account yet, right?
>
> --Chris
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