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[python-committers] Github reviews are cannibalizing BPO

Eric V. Smith eric at trueblade.com
Tue May 2 14:37:29 EDT 2017 
On 5/2/17 2:13 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I'm not necessarily disagreeing, I'm just skeptical that we can stop
> this tide. New contributors are familiar with GitHub and GitHub only,
> and for them, BPO looks and feels like a legacy system. And honestly,
> for smaller projects, I've found GitHub a very effective place to have
> discussions (e.g. most mypy design work is done there). Though I agree
> that GitHub currently doesn't scale to the size of CPython unless you
> work hard on setting up filtering (which *is* possible, just done very
> differently).

I grant that it's an uphill battle. But even github has a separate issue 
tracker, we're just not using it. So even github black belts should be 
familiar with the concept of an issue tracker being used for a different 
purpose than code reviews are.

Eric.
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