[Numpy-discussion] What is consensus anyway

[Jason Grout]

On 4/25/12 11:08 PM, Puneeth Chaganti wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Travis Oliphant<travis at continuum.io>  wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> It would be nice if every pull request created a message to this list.    Is that even possible?
>
> That is definitely possible and shouldn't be too hard to do, like
> Jason said.  But that can potentially cause some confusion, with some
> of the discussion starting off in the mailing list, and some of the
> discussion happening on the pull-request itself.  Are my concerns
> justified?

It wouldn't be too hard to have mailing list replies sent back to the 
pull request as comments (again, using the github API).  Already, if 
you're on a ticket, you can just reply to a comment email and the reply 
is put as a comment in the pull request.

Jason