Porting mailing list underused?

[Mark Lawrence]

On 10/01/2014 20:38, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> Anyone in the
>> know who can explain this phenomenon?
>
> I don't think I can explain it authoritatively, but I can hazard a
> guess. Skimming the archives sorted by author, it looks like most/all
> the correspondents are Python core developers. That leads me to
> believe this was a list created for the core Python developers to
> discuss issues related to porting tools such as 2to3 or six. I doubt
> it was intended for Python programmers to get help porting their own
> code. From the Python core development perspective, I think automated
> porting tools are likely pretty mature at this point and don't warrant
> a lot of discussion.
>
> Skip
>

If the dumbo OP had remembered to say that 
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-porting states rather 
vaguely "This list is to contain discussion of porting Python code 
between versions, mainly from Python 2.x to 3.x." it might have helped 
garner more answers.  Still, if we leave the list open for long enough 
we'll all be able to discuss porting python 2.x to python 4.x :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence