[Python-checkins] devguide: Add a doc listing the various places Python's development is discussed.

Tue Jan 11 20:20:52 CET 2011

Tweaked. Will show up in my next push.
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:53, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>> +The primary mailing list where discussions about Python's development
>> occur is
>> +python-dev_
>>>> suggest adding
> ", mirrored as newsgroup gmane.comp.python.devel."
>> ...
>> +python-ideas_. Technical support questions should also not be asked here
>> and
>> +instead should go to comp.lang.python_ or python-help_.
>>>> Suggest replace "comp.lang.python" with "python-list, mirrored as
> gmane.comp.python.general". c.l.p is another mirror, but does not get the
> spam filtering of p-l and g.c.p.g and is indeed the source or transmitter
> (from google groups) of the spam that needs to be filtered.
>>> +
>> +The python-committers_ mailing list is publicly archived but only open to
>> core
>> +developers to subscribe to. If something only affect core developers
>> (e.g., the
>> +tree is frozen for commits, etc.), it is discussed here instead of
>> python-dev
>> +to keep traffic down on the latter.
>> +
>> +Python-ideas_ is a mailing list open to the public to discuss ideas on
>> changing
>> +Python. If a new idea does not start here (or comp.lang.python_), it will
>> get
>>>> Again, /c.l.p/python-list/
>>> +subscribe to this list and are known to reply to these emails to make
>> comments
>> +about various issues they catch in the commit.
>>>> ;-)
>> ...
>> +.. _python-help: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-help
>> +.. _python-ideas: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas
>>>> _python-list: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>> +Newsgroups
>> +----------
>>>> "The free news site news.gmane.org mirrors (and archives) about 300
> python-related mailing lists, including most or all of those at
> mail.python.org. Most are listed as gmane.comp.python.*."
>> I would barely, if at all, mentions c.l.p: it is spammy, only mirrors 1
> list rather than 300, and is not an archive in itself.
>> Terry
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