[Python-ideas] From mailing list to GitHub issues

[C Anthony Risinger]

We are all interacting from different points in or own personal
development, in addition to growth and changes in how we interact with
technology.

I used to care about top posting. Email netiquette and rules and all that.
I'd perform delicate inlining of responses to promote better readability
and really give them readers the ideal experience. Or whatever.

(I'm not sure inlining and bottom posting is even better. Top posting lets
me read the most relevant discussion first and follow the signal back to
source if I wanted at leisure. This is a good way to maximize time spent
learning from refined thoughts instead of emergent ones)

Mobile dominates my non-work net-time today. I don't want to get out a
laptop to respond pretty. I have elementary kids now and life is faster.
Email is almost by design static and unable to change. Text. Walls of it!
Every message in this thread looks like a jagged unique snowflake.

Email doesn't need to change. It's already the common denominator. The next
thing will certainly email you! There is value in it and it is recognized.

Should people younger than myself care about all the garbage I too see as
relic? Making discussion more accessible and individually
relevant/impactful is all that really matters. We should explore ways to do
that!

On Aug 14, 2016 12:14 AM, "Eugene Pakhomov" <p1himik at gmail.com> wrote:

> The world probably wouldn't better, but I think python-ideas will be
> better on something like GitHub.
> People who like it will benefit from it, people who don't will still be
> able to use their email setup (as pointed earlier - at least for the
> majority of cases).
>
> Regards,
> Eugene
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Aug 13, 2016, 16:26 Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>
>> wrote:
>> >> > That's a mess and the whole email is formatted like that. I actually
>> >> > have
>> >> > not read the email because of the formatting issue. As Oleg pointed
>> out,
>> >> > when you go with a federated solution like mail, you are the mercy of
>> >> > whatever tools people choose to use with the service. But when you
>> use a
>> >> > centralized approach you know the experience is consistent for
>> everyone
>> >> > and
>> >> > thus there's a certain level of quality control.
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> IMO that's an argument in favour of the federated approach.
>> >
>> >
>> > I don't understand how me receiving a badly formatted email  due to some
>> > disagreement between the sender's and my email client is a point of
>> support?
>>
>> That in itself isn't. But your next point is that email lets people
>> choose what they use, whereas centralized systems force everyone to
>> use the exact same client (or whatever clients the one central
>> authority provides - eg Slack offers web and desktop, and I think
>> mobile). In fact, the entire *point* of the centralized systems is to
>> force everyone to use a restricted set of clients, instead of having
>> the freedom to choose. Would the world be a better place if everyone
>> were forced to write all code in Python?
>>
>> ChrisA
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