[python-committers] Timeline to vote for a governance PEP

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Sat Nov 3 13:26:16 EDT 2018



> On Nov 3, 2018, at 1:24 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
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>> On Nov 3, 2018, at 11:22 AM, Antoine Pitrou <antoine at python.org> wrote:
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>> Le 03/11/2018 à 16:19, Stefan Krah a écrit :
>>> On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 07:22:21AM -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
>>>> On 11/03/2018 03:55 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
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>>>>> Frankly, I feel pretty disenfranchised by the process
>>>>> at the moment.
>>>> 
>>>> +1
>>> 
>>> I wouldn't go as far as disenfranchised, but just this thread made it clear
>>> to me that taking in information is at least 10x faster if presented on a
>>> mailing list.
>>> 
>>> Discourse feels like eating soup with a fork, especially now that the
>>> volume is higher.
>> 
>> Indeed.  As soon as a discussion is starting to become branchy,
>> Discourse just ruins readability compared to a normal threaded
>> discussion system.  The electoral system discussion is an example of that:
>> https://discuss.python.org/t/python-governance-electoral-system/290
>> 
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> Huh, I found the experience exactly the opposite. I was just remarking last night how glad I was that the discussion happened in discourse instead of on the mailing list, because of how poorly I felt the discussion would have gone on a mailing list. The ability to trivially multi quote alone was a drastic improvement, much less the ability to control, on a topic by topic basis, what level of notification I wanted for that topic.
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Perhaps the difference is in that every mail client I’ve ever used presents mailing list threads (or any thread) as a singular flat stream anyways? To be honest, I find the threaded views on like hyper kitty or piper mail to be abysmal anyways :|

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