On 24/01/2014 22:56, Brian Curtin wrote:
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
On 24/01/2014 22:44, Brian Curtin wrote:
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
On 24/01/2014 17:19, Ram Rachum wrote:
Hmm, on one hand I understand the need for the separation between
python-dev and python-list, but on the other hand I don't think
python-list is a good place to discuss Python, the language.
I now looked at the 17 most recent python-list threads. Out of them:
- 58% are about third-party packages.
- 17% are off-topic (not even programming related)
- 11% are 2-vs-3 discussions
- 5% are job offers.
- 5% (which is just one thread out of 17) is about Python the
language.
I'm extremely impressed by your knowledge of statistics, it must have
taken
you many man years of effort to analyse all 17 threads in such detail.
So can you understand why someone would be reluctant to start a
discussion in python-list about Python the language there? Especially if
this is the same place where beginners might ask newbies questions about
Python? (So not only are actual Python questions just 5% of the content,
non-newbie questions are just a subset of that 5%.)
it's full of people asking about third-party Python packages, or asking
newbie questions.
How terrible, fancy having the audacity to ask about third party packages
or
newbie questions on the *MAIN* Python mailing list. There's yet another
reason to bring back the death penalty in the UK.
Please adjust the tone of your messages if you are going to use this
mailing list.
I'm sorry but I do not understand, please explain what is wrong with an
extremely heavy dose of sarcasm.
There's a real discussion going on and you're just responding to throw
around sarcasm. People aren't going to come to this list if you're
just going to give them snarky replies. It's not helping.
Okay, I'll leave the snarky comments to the people who are authorised to
be snarky. How do you get on this list? Is it any core dev, or are
there more severe restrictions than that, for example do you have to be
a member of the PSF, in which case I'd guess you can be very snarky
without having a word said against you?
--
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.
Mark Lawrence
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