On Tue., 3 Mar. 2020, 2:11 pm Kyle Stanley, <aeros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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. > For particularly common questions, we do have the design FAQ available: https://docs.python.org/3/faq/design.html Having pre-canned answers there helps in a few ways: * folks may find those entries on their own, and consider their question answered * folks responding on Q&A sites like Stack Overflow can cite specific links with a design rationale for points which didn't rate their own PEP * we can use the links ourselves when responding to recurring proposals on python.org mailing lists or Discourse Being versioned along with the code also helps keep track of when answers change (e.g. https://docs.python.org/3/faq/design.html#why-can-t-i-use-an-assignment-in-an-expression ) Cheers, Nick. >
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