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[python-committers] A different way to focus discussions

Victor Stinner vstinner at redhat.com
Tue May 22 18:09:43 EDT 2018 
2018-05-22 23:58 GMT+02:00 Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io>:
> FWIW, I think this is a key thing— Mailing lists are not easily moderatable.
> There’s no way to pause discussion, redirect, etc besides generating *more*
> email (and the tooling to do it is lackluster, it’s pretty much just asking
> people to do something, and hope everyone complies). Fracturing the
> discussion amongst multiple repos is one way of handling that, another
> option is better tooling for moderation.

Another solution is to use Special Interest Group (SIG) mailing lists
to discuss PEPs.

distutils-sig accepted many PEPs which were never posted to
python-dev. Someone told me that PEPs are not posted to python-dev to
avoid restarting discussions from scratch ;-) I have been told when I
asked why TOML has been chosen instead of YAML for a PEP ;-) It was
maybe the PEP 518, I don't recall.

Do we need a new more specific mailing lists to discuss PEPs changing
the Python language?

Or a generic noisy-pep mailing lists for PEPs with high traffic? :-)

Victor
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