On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote:
> 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.

We could go with cython-devel. The fact that the first letter is
different is more comforting to me than a different suffix in these
days of address auto-completion. Should I go ahead and ask?

- Robert
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