PEP 238 (revised)

[Terry Reedy]

To Guido: Version 1.10, which you indicated would not be the last, has
gotten many cogent comments.  I recommend that at some point you
pre-announce a time limit for discussion, at which time you will
gather up existing comments, declare 1.10 and further comments thereon
obsolete, retire to your desk or study, write version 1.11, and
thereafter restart discussion with a new thread entitled 'PEP 238
v1.11' .

To everyone else: such a declaration would in no way stop anyone from
discussing anything they want.  It would help people not waste their
own time by making obsolete comments of no effect.  An author of a
work in progress has a right and usually a need to stop listening to
return to writing a new draft.  One he releases the new draft, he has
a right to only listen to comments that reference that new draft, so
the discussion can move forward, (as it already has with 1.10).  This
standard procedure is probably most valuable when the work is
contentious.

Terry J. Reedy