[python-committers] A different way to focus discussions

[Carol Willing]

> On May 18, 2018, at 3:25 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org <mailto:guido at python.org>> wrote:
> 
> Discussing PEPs on python-dev and python-ideas is clearly not scalable any more. (Even python-committers probably doesn't scale too well. :-)
> 
> I wonder if it would make sense to require that for each PEP a new GitHub *repo* be created whose contents would just be a draft PEP and whose issue tracker and PR manager would be used to debate the PEP and propose specific changes.
> 

We have something similar for Project Jupyter. We have a jupyter-incubator org for third party projects that may someday be accepted into the Jupyter core. One repo in particular, https://github.com/jupyter-incubator/proposals <https://github.com/jupyter-incubator/proposals>, keeps track of all the currently active proposals with links out to their repos, if not hosted within the incubator org.

> This way the discussion is still public: when the PEP-specific repo is created the author(s) can notify python-ideas, and when they are closer to submitting they can notify python-dev, but the discussion doesn't attract uninformed outsiders as much as python-{dev,ideas} discussions do, and it's much easier for outsiders who want to learn more about the proposal to find all relevant discussion.
> 
> PEP authors may also choose to use a different repo hosting site, e.g. Bitbucket or GitLab. We can provide a script that allows checking the formatting of the PEP easily (basically pep2html.py from the peps repo).
> 
> Using a separate repo per PEP has the advantage that people interested in a topic can subscribe to all traffic in that repo -- if we were to use the tracker of the peps repo you would have to subscribe to all peps traffic.

This makes sense - one repo per proposed PEP as PRs can be used to help iterate the wording and issues can focus on specific subtopics. Having one repo that acts as a landing page for all of the in-progress PEPs would help folks keep track of where an in-progress PEP is located.

> 
> Thoughts? (We can dogfood this proposal too, if there's interest. :-)
> 
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