On 25.01.2015 17:46, Ian Cordasco wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:43 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 25.01.2015 16:34, Donald Stufft wrote: >>> >>>> On Jan 25, 2015, at 9:32 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> I think you ought to make a more prominent announcement on >>>> c.l.p, c.l.p.a and perhaps a distutils blog (if there is one). >>> >>> What is c.l.p and c.l.p.a? >> >> That's short for comp.lang.python and comp.lang.python.announce, >> which are gateway'ed to mailing lists: >> >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list >> >>> There is no distutils blog. >> >> Given how quickly things change, I think this would be a good >> way of getting the word out to a wider audience than the >> distutils mailing list. > > I've only been on this list for about a year. This PEP (and others > like it) has been in motion for quite a while. I think the blog would > miss far more people than the mailing list would and I'm not sure I > agree with "how quickly things change". There doesn't seem to be much > content for the blog and it seems like something that would just > become neglected. What topics do you really think would be better > suited for a blog post than a message to here and related announcement > lists?
The blog posts could automatically get copied over to Twitter and mailing lists using e.g. IFTTT, and it would be possible to subscribe using RSS/Atom feeds. The advantage of a blog is having news entries persist and be easy to find, while at the same time simplifying the whole publishing process. Anyway, just a suggestion. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jan 25 2015) >>> Python Projects, Coaching and Consulting ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC Plone/Zope Database Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::::: Try our mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
