I find email list VASTLY easier to deal with than any newfangled web-based custom discussion forum. Part of that is that it is a uniform interface to every list I belong too, and I can choose my own MUA. With all those web things, every site works a little bit different from every other one, that imposes an unnecessary cognitive burden (and usually simply lacks some desired capability)
On Aug 13, 2016 11:39 AM, "Donald Stufft" <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > > > 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/
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