Dropping the mailing list is another topic that often comes up, and is always a terrible idea. Every suggester had a different platform in mind, only consistent in all being vastly worse than email for this purpose
That said, if someone writes a FAQ about this mailing list, the first answer can be "We are not moving discussion to GitHub / Slack / Discuss / Reddit / StackOverflow / MediaWiki / graffiti on popular buildings / etc" On Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 11:29 AM Richard Whitehead <richard.whiteh...@ieee.org> wrote: > Chris, > > As a new member to this list, I can tell you that searching for relevant > old > content was effectively impossible, so I'm all for some way of doing that. > > Please can I make a more radical suggestion, though: Drop the mailing list. > How about a GitHub repo - a specific one (with no code), specifically for > early ideas? Then, if an idea was accepted and turned into an issue to be > implemented, it could link back to that original discussion. GitHub is > easily searchable. It can email you if someone comments on an issue you > have > raised, etc. > > An alternative might be a StackOverflow section, but that wouldn't provide > such tight integration in the case of an issue being raised. > > The new work you're doing would be a good way to populate the repo with its > initial content. > > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > 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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