[Python-ideas] Publishing ideas on ActiveState recipe site

[Yuval Greenfield]

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 8:46 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
> wrote:
> > On 05/11/12 23:52, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> >>
> >> Get everything the way you want it, and then propose it.
> >
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Also consider publishing it as a recipe on ActiveState, where many
> > people will view it, use it, and offer feedback. This has many
> > benefits:
> >
> > * You will gauge community interest;
> >
> > * Many eyeballs make bugs shallow;
> >
> > * You are providing a useful recipe that others can use, even
> >   if it doesn't get included in the std lib.
> >
> > Some of the most useful parts of the std lib, like namedtuple,
> > started life on ActiveState.
> >
> > http://code.activestate.com/recipes/langs/python/
>
> Why I don't use ActiveState:
>
> 1. StackOverflow is much easier to access - just one click to login
> with Google Account versus several clicks, data entry and copy/paste
> operations to remind the password on ActiveState - I want to login
> there with Python account
> 2. StackOverflow is problem search oriented - not recipe catalog
> oriented, which makes it better for solving problems, which I do more
> often than reading the recipe book (although I must admin when I was
> starting Python - the Cookbook from O'Reilly in CHM format was mega
> awesome)
> 3. I post the code as gists as it includes the notion of history,
> unlike ActiveState, which interface looks a little outdated - it was
> not obvious for me that recipes have history until today
> 4. Recipes are licensed, which is a too much of a burden for a snippet
> 5. ActiveState site makes it clear that it is ActiveState site - the
> 20% of my screen is taken by ActiveState header, so it looks like
> company site - not a site for community
>
> Otherwise the idea of community recipe site is very nice.
>
>
https://gist.github.com/ works great too. But I believe we are a bit OT.
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