[Python-ideas] A bit meta

[Nicholas Chammas]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 1:08 AM Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com> wrote:
> if I want to use email while you use Discourse, it seems unavoidable that
one of us is going to be participating as a second-class citizen. You're
effectively forcing me (and, more importantly, some core devs) to change.

Yes, at some level there has to be a compromise between the needs of the
established developers, and the needs of new contributors, as Brett
explained in an earlier email. As a newbie, I'm not in a position to
understand how to strike that balance; all I can do is argue for the side I
understand best.

> You're not going to convince Stefan that he's wrong for preferring
mailing lists, because he's _not_ wrong.

I haven't said and wouldn't say that anyone is "wrong" for using tools that
work for them. That's preposterous. This isn't a case of "You're *gonna*
use Discourse and *you're gonna like it*!" Come on, is that really the
message you got out of my writing? :)

I've been making the case that Discourse can benefit newcomers and
hopefully also the overall community by solving common problems better than
other tools do. The focus is on what works better in the general case for
most people.

That's not to say that someone can't have figured out a better solution for
themselves. The question is whether we want to expect everyone to arrive at
the same solution, or give them something better out of the box.

Nick
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