[Distutils] Please don't impose additional barriers to participation (was: build system abstraction PEP)

[Robert Collins]

On 28 October 2015 at 18:02, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Marcus Smith <qwcode at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 1) *Please*, *please*, *please* let's start doing PEP conversations as
>> PRs to pypa/interoperability-peps : )
>
> Please keep the conversation on a mailing list where one can participate
> without needing to sign up with any particular service provider.

One has to sign up with the mailing list, so there's no functional
difference there.

> Your proposal would have the effect of excluding people from the
> conversation if they don't agree to have a GitHub account. I think it's
> valuable to avoid that barrier to entry, needing only an email account.

They can always reply to emails.

-Rob


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