On Saturday, April 21, 2018, James Bennett <ubernost...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Pulling in a sort-of success story from another large project, I like the > general way things happen in Django. > > For developers proposing an idea or fixing a bug: > > * There's IRC (#django-dev) for quick, synchronous-ish discussion, useful > for someone to find a sounding board for an idea > #pypa (Freenode manages these) > * There's a dev mailing list where proposals can be discussed a bit more > formally > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig (still not sure who volunteered to manage these) https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/pypa-dev (or this) > * There's the public ticket tracker as a place to follow work being done > https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues https://github.com/pypa/twine/issues https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues > > And for users seeking help or general discussion: > > * There's IRC (#django) and a users mailing list > GitHub.com/pypa/<project>/new label: Question #pypa distutils-sig > * There's an official-ish subreddit moderated by committers > * And there's the rest of the internet, including Stack Overflow, which we > can't moderate but which many experienced people in the community do pay > attention to > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/pip https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/pypi https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/virtualenv https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/python-packaging Thanks to the people who host and handle these questions. > We've avoided using GitHub issues for Django, preferring the workflow > tools we get from our own customized Trac instance. > > I wonder whether something similar -- a real-time chat for > discussion/sounding board/etc., mailing list to bring things to once > they've been thought about a bit, public tracker for following > work/archival purposes -- would work for packaging. > Should there, in addition to #pypa IRC and gitter, be a zulip topic (?) for pypa? AFAIU, Zulip started at Dropbox, is written in Python, supports boots, and is functionally similar to Slack, Gitter, and MatterMost? > > (I am also wary of too much "process"; Django has a fair bit, and more > than I'd ideally like, but my experience has been that process and > participation are generally inversely correlated) > Better yet, fork and send a pull request (PR)?
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