Robert Bradshaw, 11.02.2011 20:02:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Stefan Behnel 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?

+1

Stefan
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