[python-committers] privacy

[R. David Murray]

On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:54:01 +0100, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Le mercredi 26 décembre 2012 à 08:08 -0800, Eli Bendersky a écrit :
> > At the risk of stating something that I imagine everyone already
> >         knows, this list is itself publicly viewable:
> >         
> >         http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
> >         
> >         So in some sense what we write here is already being said
> >         beyond this
> >         list (though not actively).  For example, the thread we're
> >         engaging in
> >         right now is the second result when Googling "python anatoly".
> >         
> >         I guess my point is that what's going on is already pretty
> >         open to the
> >         outside (from a read-only perspective).
> >         
> > 
> > 
> > Ouch, this is important to keep in mind. Thanks for the reminder,
> > Chris. 
> > 
> > This may be a different discussion altogether, but I'm pretty sure
> > that sometimes people write to this list assuming it's private to
> > committers only. Should it be?
> 
> I personally think it is very sane for this list to be public.

And I agree, as I noted previously in the middle of a longer post :)

--David