[meta-sig] The "distutils" SIG: name

[Friedrich, Robin K]

So as not to have my silence thunder;-) I'll vote for distrib-sig and to get
on with this neat stuff post haste.

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> From: 	Greg Ward[SMTP:gward@cnri.reston.va.us]
> Sent: 	Wednesday, November 25, 1998 9:07 AM
> To: 	meta-sig@python.org
> Subject: 	Re: [meta-sig] The "distutils" SIG: name
> 
> On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 11:58:12AM +0000, Edward Welbourne wrote:
> > just a suggestion ...
> > 
> > distribution-sig, distrib-sig, dist-sig
> > 
> > because it's all about distribution: the fact that it involves inventing
> > utils for distribution is beside the point, just as the doc-sig isn't
> > called the docutils-sig just because it spends most of its time
> > dealing with doc utilities ...
> > 
> > Personally, I'd go for dist-sig for brevity, but distrib-sig trips off
> the 
> > tongue better ... well, better than distutils-sig, anyway ;^>
> 
> Not a bad point... the analogy with the doc-sig is a bit flawed, as it's 
> charter states that it's about "form and content" for Python
> documentation.  Documentation utilities are indeed important, but
> they're not the central thing.
> 
> For the proposed distutils-sig, the utilities *are* the central focus --
> or at least, that's my intention, specifically to keep the sig focussed
> on writing useful utility modules.  At least initially (in the design
> and implementation stages), social-engineering issues such as getting
> more people to distribute, document, and test their modules will be
> strictly ancillary.  Later on, they'll step to the forefront.
> 
> If there's a strong groundswell of support for Eddy's viewpoint, though, 
> I'm not immovable -- and if that happens, I would argue for
> 'distrib-sig' for it's tongue-trippability feature.
> 
> Any comments?  I'm interpreting the thundering silence over my proposed
> charter to mean, "Yeah, get on with it already", so if I don't hear
> anything soon then I will just get on with it.'
> 
>         Greg
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