[Python-Dev] Proposal: can we have a python-dev-announce mailing list?

Fri Nov 4 00:41:12 CET 2005

> I know I would be much helped with a moderated python-dev-announce
> mailing list, which would be only low-volume, time-critical
> announcements for people developing Python. Even during times when I
> am actively following python-dev it would be handy to have important
> announcements coming in in a separate mailbox in stead of buried
> under design discussions and such...

Firstly, my apologies for the current delay in summaries, which 
exacerbates this problem (although others are right when they say 
that things sometimes happen too fast even for on-time summaries).
A while back there was talk about a mailing list for PEP changes and 
the solution was instead to use the "topic" feature of mailman, 
essentially creating a subset-mailing-list. Would something like 
this be feasible for this? (I don't really know enough how how the 
topic feature can be used to know if it is workable or not).
I presume that this would still need some sort of action from the 
poster (e.g. including a tag somewhere), but it would probably be 
easier for people to remember to do that than cross-post to another 
list entirely.
=Tony.Meyer