On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > On Mar 28, 2013, at 3:39 PM, PJ Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: >> Can we do it by just dropping catalog-sig and keeping distutils-sig? >> I'm afraid we might lose some important distutils-sig population if >> the process involves renaming the list, resubscribing, etc. I also >> *really* don't want to invalidate archive links to the distutils-sig >> archive. >> >> All in all, +1 on not having two lists, but I'm really worried about >> "breaking" distutils-sig. We're still going to be talking about >> "distribution utilities", after all. > > Worst case I'm sure subscribers can be transferred and the existing archive > kept intact.
That's a great way to have a bunch of people complaining that they never subscribed to packaging-sig, not to mention the part where it breaks everyone's mail filters. I really don't see any gains for renaming the list. It's not like we can go and scrub the entire internet of references to distutils-sig. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
