On 26 January 2015 at 06:33, Marc Abramowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Jan 25, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Randy Syring <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Therefore, I'd like to propose something like a packaging-announce mailing >> list. This could be linked to the PyPA Twitter account. Then, >> announcements that pertain to the broader Python community would be cross >> posted to the distutils-sig and packaging-announce (and therefore twitter). > > +1 to this. > > I think the key observation here is that there are two audiences when it > comes to packaging: > > 1. A large audience of folks who are package authors and maintainers, who > want to know about the latest developments and best practices. > > 2. The smaller audience of folks who know packaging well and are working hard > to improve it and having discussions among themselves on how to best move > things forward. > > I don't know of an information channel that serves #1 well. The ones I know > of try to handle both. I think having different channels for each group will > improve the experience for both groups.
I also had a look at the current contents of the python-announce list, and I suspect even that would be a bit high volume if we had significant PyPI and core packaging toolchain announcements intermingled with the other existing announcements related to conferences and various popular Python packages. So a packaging toolchain specific changelog/announcement channel likely makes sense. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
