[Python-ideas] From mailing list to GitHub issues

[Donald Stufft]

> On Aug 13, 2016, at 2:21 PM, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> As Donald pointed out, there are people who are not going to create
>> custom email processing toolchains.
> 
>   In what way they will be helpful to the development of Python?
> Contributors have to install, learn, configure and use a lot of
> development tools, comparing to which email tools are just toys.


Well, I personally generally do not have the time to sit there and craft
some sort of complex email toolchain to deal with it. I just leave lists
if their volume are too high for me to deal with or they don’t provide me
the tools to interact with them in a non frustrating way. For example, I’m
no longer subscribed to python-dev because of these reasons. I *think* I’ve
positively impacted the development of Python, but maybe not! In any case
I think that falling down the trap of thinking that anyone who is willing
to contribute to Python is also willing to maintain a personal toolchain
for dealing with the deficiencies in mailing lists is not a place we should
be in.

That’s not to say that a traditional mailing list may not represent the best
trade off— I have my opinion, you have yours, but we should not start thinking
that adding an obstacle course that a user must complete before they can
meaningfully contribute is doing anything but self selecting for people willing
to run that particular obstacle course, not selecting for skill or likely
impact.

—
Donald Stufft