[Python-Dev] Proposal: can we have a python-dev-announce mailing list?

[Tony Meyer]

> I know I would be much helped with a moderated python-dev-announce
> mailing list, which would be only low-volume, time-critical
> announcements for people developing Python. Even during times when I
> am actively following python-dev it would be handy to have important
> announcements coming in in a separate mailbox in stead of buried
> under design discussions and such...

Firstly, my apologies for the current delay in summaries, which  
exacerbates this problem (although others are right when they say  
that things sometimes happen too fast even for on-time summaries).

A while back there was talk about a mailing list for PEP changes and  
the solution was instead to use the "topic" feature of mailman,  
essentially creating a subset-mailing-list.  Would something like  
this be feasible for this?  (I don't really know enough how how the  
topic feature can be used to know if it is workable or not).

I presume that this would still need some sort of action from the  
poster (e.g. including a tag somewhere), but it would probably be  
easier for people to remember to do that than cross-post to another  
list entirely.

=Tony.Meyer