Robert Bradshaw, 11.02.2011 19:50:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Robert Bradshaw
>> <rober...@math.washington.edu>  wrote:
>>> I think we should definitely have dev or devel in the name. Very
>>> strange that they don't allow a hyphen: not a blocker, but as we have
>>> not commitment yet it's worth keeping our eyes open for an equivalent
>>> service that does.
>>
>> Of course you could also just find mailman hosting somewhere -- I host
>> some lists myself, and it works well and people are familiar with it.
>> It's also easy to import archives[1] and the default archive pages
>> have links to download the raw archive. Perhaps the scipy.org folks
>> would be willing to help? They already host a number of lists, not
>> just for scipy[2].
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030624
>> [2] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo
>
> I like that idea a lot better than going with a random, un-related
> list hosting service. (I had thought about python.org too, would that
> be an appropriate fit?) SciPy is certainly very related, but I don't
> want to pigeon-hole ourselves as being only for scientific computation
> (even if this is our biggest userbase).

:) You read my mind here.

However, my first thought about "python.org" was that "python-dev" and 
"cython-dev" are pretty close, especially given that "python" is often 
referred to as "cpython". This may trigger some confusion.

Stefan
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