On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > One of the great things about a discussion forum open view for the > public is that, when a topic comes up again in a *different* forum, I > can easily point anyone to the existing discussion without requiring > that they join some private group. That's invaluable for spreading > knowledge freely. > > If the goal of spreading knowledge isn't primary for the forum, I think > it's a bit misleading to call it mentorship. Sure, mentorship can still > be private; but it's pretty inefficient – and counter to the goal of > spreading knowledge – if only a private group gets to benefit from the > discussions.
And that's why I made sure to point out that any more widely applicable information *will be incorporated into the devguide*. So rather than pointing people to a potentially meandering discussion, we'll be able to point them to a straightforward coherent answer, without all the false starts and clarifications that happen in a real mailing list conversation. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
