What I usually do btw is just search on mailman. Perhaps we can guide people to search on mailman before suggesting an idea?
On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 12:30 AM Bar Harel <bha...@barharel.com> wrote: > I wrote it and take full responsibility, did not mean to be disrespectful. > Afterall, it's not what any of us are here for. > > For repeated suggestions though, that were rejected once or more in the > past, what are the general guidelines of answering? > In this case, apart from the rejection reason, we wish to teach the newbie > how to check if an idea was already suggested, else his ideas would just be > rejected over and over again. > > Atm we don't have an index of ideas, apart from pep 3099, and I'm not sure > we can make one (can we?), so I do not see a way to prevent this from > happening. > > I bet that many ideas are repeated, we don't know it, and it therefore > causes a repeated discussion with time and effort going nowhere. > > Just to clarify, my aim by answering it this way was to reduce the overall > effort of both sides, and the attempt to reinvent the wheel. It's much like > how duplicate stackoverflow questions are closed. > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2020, 11:58 PM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > >> Somebody wrote, in response to a newbie's idea: >> >>> This idea is proposed at least once a year. You're able to read past >>> discussions on python-ideas for the full list of rejection reasons. >>> >> >> This needs to go. It's unfair to the newbie, and I bet that in most >> cases whoever posts this doesn't have the slightest idea on how to find the >> specific rejection reason for the idea to which they're responding. I agree >> that many bad ideas come up repeatedly. But unless the proposer is a >> regular harasser of one of the lists, a response like this is unhelpful. >> Even if an idea is bad, let's respond in a friendly way, so the OP actually >> learns something about how Python is designed, or how it works, or whatever >> is relevant to understanding why their idea won't fly. >> >> -- >> --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) >> *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* >> <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/> >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ >> Message archived at >> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/EZMCYMLYJKOIUWXIHUHQTQ2776XZOZ3Z/ >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> >
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