[python-committers] discuss.python.org participation

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018, at 11:55, Brett Cannon wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 at 01:30, Antoine Pitrou <antoine at python.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > What concerns me is that there are several long-time and/or prominent
> > developers who are not even registered (*) on discuss.python.org.  For
> > example Benjamin Peterson, Larry Hastings, Raymond Hettinger, Stefan
> > Krah, Terry Reedy.
> >
> 
> I believe Larry is currently busy so he might simply have not taken the
> time (and will be occupied into I believe November).
> 
> I will also note that Benjamin, Larry, and Raymond can be a bit quiet at
> times and so they may not have signed up yet because they have not had
> anything to say to compel them to create accounts (Stefan has already
> stated he doesn't like this idea so I'm assuming that might be why he has
> not signed up yet).

Brett is exactly right about me. I'm following along on Discourse and this mailing list when I have the time. I plan to read the governance PEPs and vote when the time comes. But, I don't have anything useful to say.

At the sprint, I verbally supported Łukasz's plans to try out Discourse. Discourse isn't perfect and may feel uncomfortable, but we're also losing potential contributors because they find mailing lists uncomfortable.