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[python-committers] OpenMandriva and Fedora abandoned Discourse for development discussions

Victor Stinner vstinner at redhat.com
Thu Feb 28 10:29:17 EST 2019 
Maybe we need a new #python-dev-notif (or even #python-dev-bots?)
channel for automated notifications and bots, and keep #python-dev for
humans?

Victor

Le mer. 27 févr. 2019 à 22:21, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> a écrit :
>
> On 27.02.19 22:11, Brett Cannon wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 3:40 PM Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Follow-up of the previous "Can we choose between mailing list and
> >> discuss.python.org?" thread.
> >>
> >> Python isn't the first project who "experimented" Discourse to replace
> >> mailing lists. It seems like Fedora and OpenMandriva are coming back
> >> to mailing lists, at least for "development discussions":
> >>
> >>
> >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/council-discuss@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XQLY3MRJLC4CFMIRSYU5LRQSOPFF532X/
> >>
> >
> > It sounds like their overall team is much larger than ours based on the
> > tone of that email (is that true?). We have also talked about having both
> > Discourse and python-committers for announcements which would partially
> > alleviate some of their concerns.
> >
> > I also think it's telling that their decision to do this was done on IRC
> > which is not a primary communication platform for all of us and suggests
> > that it's possible the desires/needs/expectations of those participating
> > are different.
>
> well, #python-dev is another topic.  It now gets spammed by many bots, and human
> chats are lost in the noise.  That used to be better.
>
> Matthias



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