On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 at 23:38, James Lu <jam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It’s very demotivating to hear just negative feedback on this list. > > Was starting this thread useful for y’all?
In the interests of clear communication, no it wasn't. In the interests of trying not to be *too* demotivating, the reason is that it was far too general a question, and it was almost entirely about how people behave, which is a sensitive topic, and not one that's well suited to the medium of email. So people ended up digressing and debating minor off-topic points, because it's bluntly too hard to come up with a polite, clear explanation, suitable for an email, of why certain people's writing styles are hard to work with (and even if someone did that, it's just stating the problem - proposing a solution is a whole order of magnitude more work). Very few people have the time or the inclination to put a lot of effort into carefully reasoned, well thought through emails. It's too much like writing an essay or a report. But that's what's needed when discussing a complex proposal. And "discussing complex proposals" is essentially the whole point of this list (as I see it). "Hey, wouldn't it be neat if we could do X" is *not* the intended use of the list, and it's precisely those partially (or even not at all) thought out postings that generate the most frustrating, least clear, conversations. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
