> On Aug 13, 2016, at 2:21 PM, Oleg Broytman <p...@phdru.name> wrote: > >> >> As Donald pointed out, there are people who are not going to create >> custom email processing toolchains. > > In what way they will be helpful to the development of Python? > Contributors have to install, learn, configure and use a lot of > development tools, comparing to which email tools are just toys.
Well, I personally generally do not have the time to sit there and craft some sort of complex email toolchain to deal with it. I just leave lists if their volume are too high for me to deal with or they don’t provide me the tools to interact with them in a non frustrating way. For example, I’m no longer subscribed to python-dev because of these reasons. I *think* I’ve positively impacted the development of Python, but maybe not! In any case I think that falling down the trap of thinking that anyone who is willing to contribute to Python is also willing to maintain a personal toolchain for dealing with the deficiencies in mailing lists is not a place we should be in. That’s not to say that a traditional mailing list may not represent the best trade off— I have my opinion, you have yours, but we should not start thinking that adding an obstacle course that a user must complete before they can meaningfully contribute is doing anything but self selecting for people willing to run that particular obstacle course, not selecting for skill or likely impact. — Donald Stufft _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
