On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Randy Syring <ra...@thesyrings.us> wrote: > I'd like to pick up a conversation that was happening on another thread: > > 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. > > > pypa.io also says: > > They host projects on github and bitbucket, and discuss issues on the > pypa-dev and distutils-sig mailing lists. > > > I think the issue with the current mailing lists is one of signal-to-noise > ratio. Let me give you a little background: > > I maintain a small number of pypi published packages. I'm very interested > in using best practices and keeping up with the more significant changes in > the Python packaging ecosystem. I joined the distutils-sig list to stay > informed. > > However, the more detailed discussions that happen on the distutils-sig list > are not of much value to me. I know they are important and I very much > appreciate those who are pushing things forward, it's just too much detail > for my context. > > So, I'm on the distituls-sig list, but there is a lot of "noise" for me and > not much "signal." I would rather be a part of some channel for receiving > announcements that relate to the broader community of those who maintain & > release packages and need to stay abreast of python packing ecosystem & best > practice changes. > > Therefore, I'd like to propose something like a packaging-announce mailing > list. This could be linked to the PyPA Twitter account.
Just to clarify, PyPA doesn't have a Twitter account yet, right? --Chris _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig