Oh brilliant. I'll unsubscribe from this list then. It sounds like the only people using it will be those folks who think their tooling preferences are more important than creating a joined-up Python community; I can survive without their input.
On Sun, 4 Dec 2022, 19:53 Baptiste Carvello, < [email protected]> wrote: > Le 04/12/2022 à 16:55, Barney Gale a écrit : > > > > I don't want to post to multiple > > places in order to reach the devs. > > Nobody proposed that. In order to reach the devs, you use discourse (or > have someone else do it on your behalf). > > Just let the "second circle" of the community keep their mailing list, > as this second circle just won't switch to a specialized, and quite > unflexible tool. > > Yeah, without most core devs, this list might be more akin to > python-ideas than the old python-dev. But it makes sense to keep the > bigger following it has grown over the years. > > > I prefer mailing lists personally, but theyve been losing out to web > > forums for 20 years now. > > This is historically untrue. In technical communities, web forums have > been considered second class tools until some 5 years ago, with > mailing-lists being seen as lighter, more flexible and more capable. > Invision Power Board, PHPBB and others supplanted mailing lists in the early 00s. Programming communities took longer because they disproportionately attract folks with strong and inflexible preferences. > > Then they began loosing to *heavily moderated* web forums because of the > insistence on moderation. Yeah, smartphones with no capable mail client > played a role too. > > Cheers, > Baptiste > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/A2667BXDXYU5TXG535IUSWI6WRC35DIB/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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