The webmaster list sends an auto-response to new posters. If something like that could happen on python-dev too, as long as the advice was clear enough the list could then simply ignore such requests, knowing that the auto-responder had taken care of it. This could drive posters to python-list or python-ideas. There's nothing to stop individual devs still replying if the inquiry merits it ...
Kind regards, Steve On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 10:49 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? > > 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/ >>> >> _______________________________________________ > 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/3YYFGF2CVYJXM6PHZETWQUJ22SOUYIKM/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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