On Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:25:34 +0000 Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > Consider the fact that a standard answer to a lack of email threading on > any of the major email providers is to use gmane's NNTP gateway.
The main problem with gmane is that it isn't really maintained anymore. In particular you can't register new mailing-lists to the gateway :-( > I don't think people realize that anyone who post-dates the '90s has no clue > what > that acronym represents and thus poses the same barriers as setting up IRC. I'm curious about "barriers". You just have to set up a piece of software... Python requires some kind of text editor or IDE to become productive. Is it a barrier to have to set up a text editor? > So for me, the first question is are we just considering alternatives to > the "IRC problem" or are we trying to solve the "new contributors who were > born in the 2000s problem" (for which the latter subsumes the former)? Well... I think the main question is whether IRC is important at all. I'd be willing to guess that most of our contributors don't use IRC on a regular basis, and they're not missing on anything. Which isn't a reason not to improve things, but makes it quite low-priority IMHO. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ core-workflow mailing list -- core-workflow@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to core-workflow-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/core-workflow.python.org/ This list is governed by the PSF Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct
