On Monday, June 11, 2012, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Brett Cannon writes: > > > But we already have the various SIGs carry out discussions outside of > > python-dev and just bring forward their results to python-dev when they > are > > ready. Why would this list be any different? > > (1) Because AIUI the main problem this list is supposed to solve is > contacting interested parties and getting them to come to > python-dev where the actual discussion will take place. Almost > certainly some of the actual discussion will take place on > python-dev, no? It *is* on-topic for python-dev, right? (Guido > seems to think so, anyway....) So it's not going to focus > discussion the way a SIG list does.
Not necessarily. Just like discussions on SIGs can start and end there, I see no requirement that discussions on the list end up on python-dev. > > (2) Because it delegates issue triage to people who don't actually > know which of the various VMs will care about a particular change, > so it's unlikely to be terribly accurate. > > (3) The SIGs attract long-term interest from a body of "usual > suspects". It's worth it to them to invest in the SIG list. > While the VM folks will have a long term interest, by the current > definition of the new list they won't be starting threads very > often! The people who should be starting threads are quite likely > to have interest in only one thread, so their incentive to move it > to the new list will be low; their natural tendency will be to > post to python-dev and "let George move the thread if needed". > > Discussions on the list would universally affect all VMs, so there is an incentive to pay attention. > None of that means the new list is a bad idea -- it might be accurate > *enough* to be a big improvement, etc -- just that it clearly is > different from the various SIGs in some important ways. > -- [sent from my iPad]
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