[IPython-dev] [jupyter] Communications, mailing lists, gitter, etc...

Fernando Perez fperez.net at gmail.com
Tue Jun 30 14:40:21 EDT 2015


On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:

> Those with long memories may remember the monthly "python-dev summaries".
>
> While these posts were interesting and useful, they inevitably became a
> burden for their individual authors as mailing volume grew.
>
> From a purely personal point of view I'd rather take what you say on good
> faith and try to find some way of reporting progress that doesn't distract
> developers form their primary goal of, rem, developing.
>

Thanks for the cautionary tale from hard-won experience, Steve.

Indeed, we dont' want to turn this into a burden for anyone...

I'm thinking simply of something where, if a discussion went on for hours
and reached an important conclusion, the acting parties take only a few
minutes to make a quick recap and post a light summary of it, no more, to
the list to keep the rest of us in the loop.

I think it's not much to ask, and it's important so that we don't lose that
common weave of community knowledge of what's happening across the
project.  But it's indeed critical that we don't set a bar so high that it
becomes burdensome.

I know far too well how on these kinds of things, the perfect is the enemy
of the good, so we're going to keep the bar low: basic info, links that
provide context to be useful and that help us weave the fabric of
knowledge, and that keep the burden as minimal as absolutely possible.

Cheers,

f

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