[Distutils] Re: Archive this list & redirect conversation elsewhere?

2020-07-30 Thread Wes Turner
I confess that I don't even know how to subscribe to all threads of a discourse. - [ ] How to subscribe to all threads of discourse So, I'd miss security or release announcements only posted to discourse and not distutils-sig (or pypa-dev, which IMHO has the more appropriate scope name in that

[Distutils] Re: Archive this list & redirect conversation elsewhere?

2020-07-30 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2020-07-30 12:16:17 + (+), Jeremy Stanley wrote: [...] > I'll be less likely to find out tidbits like Setuptools 20.3 in > October turning on the new dep solver [...] Er, clearly I meant pip. ;) Also thanks for sending an update about it to the pypi-announce ML just now! -- Jeremy

[Distutils] Re: Improving Communication

2020-07-30 Thread Wes Turner
- [ ] Communications flowchart - [ ] Bot for mailing list <> Discourse trackbacks On Sun, May 6, 2018, 5:33 AM Pradyun Gedam wrote: > Sorry for poking an old thread. I actually wanted to respond earlier but > life got in the way. > > Just a small point though. > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 7:37

[Distutils] Re: Archive this list & redirect conversation elsewhere?

2020-07-30 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2020-07-30 11:51:24 +0100 (+0100), Paul Moore wrote: [...] > 1. Will dropping distutils-sig mean that people who prefer > interacting here lose their voice in packaging discussions? Probably not. I think the fact that most of the list's prior conversation has already moved to Discourse means

[Distutils] Re: Archive this list & redirect conversation elsewhere?

2020-07-30 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2020-07-29 22:51:37 -0400 (-0400), Sumana Harihareswara wrote: [...] > Jeremy, I'm not sure whether you were serious? If your > disappointment is only out of nostalgia, then yeah, accepting > change makes sense. But if your disappointment is because the > Discourse experience is/will be worse

[Distutils] Re: Archive this list & redirect conversation elsewhere?

2020-07-30 Thread Bernat Gabor
I think it's natural that people on the mailing list will favour the mailing list over Discourse, just as when asked this question on Discourse voted for the forum over the mailing list. Taking a more practical look at the issue, I want to note that 99% of the discussion about packaging and its

[Distutils] Re: Archive this list & redirect conversation elsewhere?

2020-07-30 Thread Ian Stapleton Cordasco
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 5:39 AM Robert Collins wrote: > > > > On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 14:52, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: >> >> On 7/29/20 10:14 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: >> > On 2020-07-30 07:17:03 +0530 (+0530), Pradyun Gedam wrote: >> >> TL;DR: OK to archive this mailing list? Reply by Aug

[Distutils] Re: Archive this list & redirect conversation elsewhere?

2020-07-30 Thread Paul Moore
On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 03:53, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > On Discourse I've seen > https://discuss.python.org/t/disappointed-and-overwhelmed-by-discourse/982 > , https://discuss.python.org/t/if-mailing-list-mode-were-better/3951 , > and

[Distutils] Re: Archive this list & redirect conversation elsewhere?

2020-07-30 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 14:52, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > On 7/29/20 10:14 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > > On 2020-07-30 07:17:03 +0530 (+0530), Pradyun Gedam wrote: > >> TL;DR: OK to archive this mailing list? Reply by Aug 30th. > > [...] > > > > I find it disappointing that there will no