[python-committers] Why?

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:41 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> On 2008-07-30 14:54, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>> Sorry if this is a naive question, but I was just wondering what the
>> purpose of this mailing list would be. I don't think there are often
>> python related topics that are only applicable to committers. What
>> sort of things will we discuss here?
>
> I suppose the list would be useful for notices related to
> a frozen trunk or other admin notices. Filtering those from
> python-dev is not very reliable.
>

MAL hit it right on the head. Guido's idea was to have a list where
you should not have to mentally filter out threads because it has
deteriorated into some competition over what color to paint the
bikeshed (see the whole unittest method name fiasco for a good
example). Because we all ignore various threads on python-dev there is
a chance that something important might get missed. This lowers that
chance by making sure this list is low-volume and high-quality in
terms of what all committers need to be aware of.

-Brett