On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 2:42 PM Bar Harel <bha...@barharel.com> wrote:
> What I usually do btw is just search on mailman. Perhaps we can guide > people to search on mailman before suggesting an idea? > We could add that suggestion to the "welcome to this list" email. I honestly don't know if we send out such emails, but Mailman (3) seems to have that capability. But I doubt that many users will follow that advice. In most cases of a first-time poster that I've seen, the poster probably doesn't have the understanding needed to conduct a proper search of the mailing list. That's why I suggest responding with some genuine help (i.e. taking their idea at face value and explaining what's wrong with it). For example, Andrew Barnert does this excellently in many of his python-ideas posts. Many posts by Steven D'Aprano are also good examples. In the past, Tim Peters was the champion of this style. On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 3:03 PM Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > Maybe an informational PEP which briefly lists rejected ideas? > Presumably, they'd normally come up in python-ideas, python-list or > python-dev. Each rejected idea could link to one or more relevant > threads in one of those lists. Not sure who should be the gatemasters > for new bad ideas. > At least for python-ideas, that sounds a lot like an exhaustive list of all threads in that list. :-) -- --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/>
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