> 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).
It might also be helpful to directly link to a few of those past discussions; particularly if they had some relevant responses that could provide some valuable insight for the OP. I've done this a few times, and mentioned that if they want to still proceed with their idea, they'd have to address the previous concerns brought up. IMO, this provides a good balance of avoiding an exact repetition of past discussions, providing the OP with some answers, and in a best case scenario the OP might have valid counterarguments to the previous reason(s) the proposal was rejected. On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 10:12 PM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > 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/> > _______________________________________________ > 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/PJRWYQZSZAUB46WPNDPA3MIMHEGNRKLC/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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