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[python-committers] privacy

Eli Bendersky eliben at gmail.com
Wed Dec 26 18:17:37 CET 2012 
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> Le mercredi 26 décembre 2012 à 08:08 -0800, Eli Bendersky a écrit :
> > At the risk of stating something that I imagine everyone already
> >         knows, this list is itself publicly viewable:
> >
> >         http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
> >
> >         So in some sense what we write here is already being said
> >         beyond this
> >         list (though not actively).  For example, the thread we're
> >         engaging in
> >         right now is the second result when Googling "python anatoly".
> >
> >         I guess my point is that what's going on is already pretty
> >         open to the
> >         outside (from a read-only perspective).
> >
> >
> >
> > Ouch, this is important to keep in mind. Thanks for the reminder,
> > Chris.
> >
> > This may be a different discussion altogether, but I'm pretty sure
> > that sometimes people write to this list assuming it's private to
> > committers only. Should it be?
>
> I personally think it is very sane for this list to be public.
>

I agree there're very strong reasons to keep it public. I just wanted to
emphasize Chris's note because I'm pretty sure that some devs assume it's
not public when writing on controversial topics (like the recent
conversation).

Eli
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