[meta-sig] Retired SIGS, SIG ownership

Tim Peters tim.one@home.com
Fri, 27 Apr 2001 15:33:25 -0400


[Guido]
> Please not digicool.  SF sounds just about perfect!

Sorry, but this seems driven by passing on the maintenance burdens to
"somebody else", not by what's best for the communities served by the mailing
lists.  The Geocrawler archive facilities are horrid compared to
python.org's, or even to egroup's/Yahoo's:

+ infrequently and sporadically updated

+ no usable thread view

+ no author view

+ no way to download individual msgs in anything other than
  HTML format

+ a Search facility that appears 100% broken ("no matches" is the
  only response I've ever gotten from it)

+ no way to download archives in bulk (this is essential for
  "catching up" when first signing up for a list, and, thanks
  to the last point, the only way to *find* anything again)

Since the *real* problem is that python.org hasn't been actively maintained
in a year, and there's no way to open maintenance up to the community now,
the real solution lies in addressing the latter.