[Python-Dev] Time for py3k@python.org or a Py3K Wiki?

[Brett C.]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
> These various discussions are moving along a bit too rapidly for me to keep
> up.  We have been discussing language issues which are going to impact
> Python 3.0, either by deprecating current language constructs which can't be
> eliminated until then (e.g., the global statement) or by tossing around
> language construct ideas which will have to wait until then for their
> implementation (other mechanisms for variable access in outer scopes).
> Unfortunately, I'm afraid these things are going to get lost in the sea of
> other python-dev topics and be forgotten about then the time is ripe.
> 
> Maybe this would be a good time to create a py3k at python.org mailing list
> with more restrictions than python-dev (posting by members only?  membership
> by invitation?) so we can more easily separate these ideas from shorter term
> issues and keep track of them in a separate Mailman archive.  I'd suggest
> starting a Wiki, but that seems a bit too "global".  You can restrict Wiki
> mods in MoinMoin to users who are logged in, but I'm not sure you can
> restrict signups very well.
> 

I would support doing *something*.  My personal hell that is all of 
these threads seems to be getting deeper and deeper.  But making it 
invitation-only might stifle some ideas.  But then again it might be a 
while before Python 3 has to be worried about so maybe that is not that 
big of an issue now.

God I hope Raymond has PEP 289 updated before the next summary is due.

-Brett