[Python-checkins] devguide: Add a doc listing the various places Python's development is discussed.

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Jan 10 21:53:51 CET 2011


> +The primary mailing list where discussions about Python's development occur is
> +python-dev_

suggest adding
", mirrored as newsgroup gmane.comp.python.devel."

...
> +python-ideas_. Technical support questions should also not be asked here and
> +instead should go to comp.lang.python_ or python-help_.

Suggest replace "comp.lang.python" with "python-list, mirrored as 
gmane.comp.python.general". c.l.p is another mirror, but does not get 
the spam filtering of p-l and g.c.p.g and is indeed the source or 
transmitter (from google groups) of the spam that needs to be filtered.

> +
> +The python-committers_ mailing list is publicly archived but only open to core
> +developers to subscribe to. If something only affect core developers (e.g., the
> +tree is frozen for commits, etc.), it is discussed here instead of python-dev
> +to keep traffic down on the latter.
> +
> +Python-ideas_ is a mailing list open to the public to discuss ideas on changing
> +Python. If a new idea does not start here (or comp.lang.python_), it will get

Again, /c.l.p/python-list/

> +subscribe to this list and are known to reply to these emails to make comments
> +about various issues they catch in the commit.

;-)

...
> +.. _python-help: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-help
> +.. _python-ideas: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas

_python-list: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

> +Newsgroups
> +----------

"The free news site news.gmane.org mirrors (and archives) about 300 
python-related mailing lists, including most or all of those at 
mail.python.org. Most are listed as gmane.comp.python.*."

I would barely, if at all, mentions c.l.p: it is spammy, only mirrors 1 
list rather than 300, and is not an archive in itself.

Terry




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