[Python-ideas] From mailing list to GitHub issues

[Brett Cannon]

On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 at 05:16 Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 01:57:03PM +0200, Arek Bulski wrote:
> > ​I throw a proposal on the table: lets create a "python-ideas" repo under
> > "python" account on GitHub and move this and only this thread onto it. If
> > it fails,
>
> What is your definition of "fails"?
>
> If three people follow you onto Github, and say "Well, isn't this
> nice!", is that a success?
>
> Its all well and good to say "let's try it and see", but unless you have
> concrete, object criteria for success or failure, all that will happen
> is that some person or group of people will decide on subjective grounds
> that they like the new way of doing things, or don't, and we all should,
> or shouldn't, change.
>

Yep, and in the case of python-ideas that subjective decision falls on my
shoulders because you can't measure happiness objectively very well. :(

 And as for creating a test GH repo for this, I'm thinking about it. But I
should mention the only reason I'm thinking about it is because some of us
have been discussing the cognitive overload of mailing lists as they
currently stand behind the scenes and GH was potentially the next
experiment. It has nothing to do with the OP as I believe it would have
been a bit more appropriate/nicer to ask for suggestions on how to manage
the email volume rather than coming in and say, "I don't like this, so it
should change" (a similar issue also came up on the peps repo w/ the OP
trying to use that issue tracker for this same proposed purpose, so I'm
trying to stay impartial in spite of how this idea has been presented).

IOW I'm personally muting this thread as I am not hearing any new
information on this topic and it's on me to make a decision as to whether a
GitHub repo will be set up as an experiment.
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