+1 to a pypa-announce list. I personally care more about the list than twitter. at this point, probably need to post the idea to pypa-dev, and get a few +1's there, and get someone to agree to execute on the idea. there's a few people there that don't monitor distutils-sig Marcus
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Marc Abramowitz <msabr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Jan 25, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Randy Syring <ra...@thesyrings.us> 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. > > Randy, I'm willing to help if you want. > > Marc > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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