On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 at 18:13 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 June 2016 at 19:00, Kevin Ollivier <kevin-li...@theolliviers.com> > wrote: > > Hi Guido, > > > > From: <gvanros...@gmail.com> on behalf of Guido van Rossum > > <gu...@python.org> > > Reply-To: <gu...@python.org> > > Date: Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 5:27 PM > > To: Kevin Ollivier <kevin-li...@theolliviers.com> > > Cc: Python Dev <python-dev@python.org> > > Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Discussion overload > > > > Hi Kevin, > > > > I often feel the same way. Are you using GMail? It combines related > messages > > in threads and lets you mute threads. I often use this feature so I can > > manage my inbox. (I presume other mailers have the same features, but I > > don't know if all of them do.) There are also many people who read the > list > > on a website, e.g. gmane. (Though I think that sometimes the delays > incurred > > there add to the noise -- e.g. when a decision is reached on the list > > sometimes people keep responding to earlier threads.) > > > > > > I fear I did quite a poor job of making my point. :( I've been on open > > source mailing lists since the late 90s, so I've learned strategies for > > dealing with mailing list overload. I've got my mail folders, my mail > rules, > > etc. Having been on many mailing lists over the years, I've seen many > > productive discussions and many unproductive ones, and over time you > start > > to see patterns. You also see what happens to those communities over > time. > > This is one of the major reasons we have the option of escalating > things to the PEP process (and that's currently in train for > os.urandom), as well as the SIGs for when folks really need to dig > into topics that risk incurring a relatively low signal-to-noise > ration on python-dev. It's also why python-ideas was turned into a > separate list, since folks without the time for more speculative > discussions and brainstorming can safely ignore it, while remaining > confident that any ideas considered interesting enough for further > review will be brought to python-dev's attention. > Do we need a security SIG? E.g. would people like Christian and Cory like to have a separate place to talk about the ssl stuff brought up at the language summit? -Brett
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