> On Jan 25, 2015, at 12:01 PM, Ian Cordasco <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:52 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 25.01.2015 17:46, Ian Cordasco wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:43 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On 25.01.2015 16:34, Donald Stufft wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Jan 25, 2015, at 9:32 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I think you ought to make a more prominent announcement on >>>>>> c.l.p, c.l.p.a and perhaps a distutils blog (if there is one). >>>>> >>>>> What is c.l.p and c.l.p.a? >>>> >>>> That's short for comp.lang.python and comp.lang.python.announce, >>>> which are gateway'ed to mailing lists: >>>> >>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list >>>> >>>>> There is no distutils blog. >>>> >>>> Given how quickly things change, I think this would be a good >>>> way of getting the word out to a wider audience than the >>>> distutils mailing list. >>> >>> I've only been on this list for about a year. This PEP (and others >>> like it) has been in motion for quite a while. I think the blog would >>> miss far more people than the mailing list would and I'm not sure I >>> agree with "how quickly things change". There doesn't seem to be much >>> content for the blog and it seems like something that would just >>> become neglected. What topics do you really think would be better >>> suited for a blog post than a message to here and related announcement >>> lists? >> >> The blog posts could automatically get copied over to >> Twitter and mailing lists using e.g. IFTTT, and it would >> be possible to subscribe using RSS/Atom feeds. >> >> The advantage of a blog is having news entries persist and be >> easy to find, while at the same time simplifying the whole >> publishing process. >> >> Anyway, just a suggestion. > > I still don't understand the benefit. You could just as easily have > the mailing list mirrored to a blog if we felt it would help but > distutils-sig has public archives and (I think) is indexed by Google. > Donald, Paul, Nick, Richard, Jason, and everyone else whose name I'm > forgetting are already working a lot on PyPI, packaging, pip, > setuptools, etc. I don't see the benefit in maintaining the blog on > top of their other responsibilities. Maybe if someone else steps up to > be an editor and take mailing list posts and turn them into blog > posts, that'd be cool, but I don't see the value in making them > maintain yet another thing on top of what they do.
I’ve thought about doing something like this https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog but I hadn’t had the time to actually do anything to make it a thing. --- Donald Stufft PGP: 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
