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Fred Drake fred at fdrake.net
Wed Oct 10 00:21:38 EDT 2018 
On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 11:25 PM Jack Diederich <jackdied at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm worried about the new format combined with governance discussions.
> As best I can tell 51 CPython committers have signed up for an account
> [I think that is a big number, btw] but only 17 have posted anything; That
> 17 is about 5 more people than put their name on a governance PEP.
> And maybe 5 people have half the total posts. This does not feel like a
> discussion at all.

It can (reasonably) take months for a small-ish group to migrate to a
new type of forum; large groups take longer.

> I don't think it was deliberate, but it looks like the new format is actively discouraging everyone but those most deeply invested with the most free time from participating.

I doubt anyone intended to cut anyone out of discussions, but a new
medium at this time just wasn't a good idea.  It also didn't seem to
work well when I first tried to sign up (the round-trip email never
came through; yes, I checked my spam-box).  Things like this make
uptake even slower.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.    <fred at fdrake.net>
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