On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote: > Brett Cannon writes: > > If anything this new list would act as a showing of good will > > "The road to Hell," as they say. > > We tried this a couple of times at XEmacs; it didn't work. In > practice, threads didn't move, they split, and the actual decisions > were taken on the main list, sometimes seriously offending the members > of the SIG list. The analogy of topics is not exact, and Python is > more disciplined, so it might work better here. But you should plan > for it, not merely appeal to "men of good will".
Aye, we already suffer the "split discussion" problem with import-sig (and any other sig once conclusions are brought to python-dev for ratification, although here every SIG already knows they will eventually have to make their case on the main list for any standard library changes). I think the idea of using topic markers as a way to allow people to set up their own filters that doesn't require spinning out a whole new list is a good compromise. Adding a subject header is even less of a burden than remembering to pass a question to a different list. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
