[Python-ideas] A bit meta

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jan 30, 2016, at 10:02 PM, Nicholas Chammas wrote:

>As for discoverability, let me make a brief case for why Discourse is head
>and shoulders above mailing lists.

To be clear, I'm a fan of Discourse, and would be happy to see an
id.python.org SSO'd instance of it for experimentation purposes.

However, I would be really upset if major decisions were made in some
Discourse thread.  There's a reason why PEP 1 requires posting to python-dev,
and specifies headers like Discussions-To, Post-History, and Resolution.

Some features, which I'd call "tangential" to core language design do indeed
happen elsewhere primarily.  asyncio and the distutils-stack come to mind.
And I think that's fine.  But it's also important to post to python-dev at
certain milestones or critical junctures because that's what *everyone* knows
as the central place for coordinating development.

Cheers,
-Barry
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