I have to agree that the decentralized nature of the mailing list would probably stand the test of time a bit better, plus the ability to in-line reply makes larger discussions easier on the eyes.
In reference to OPs original comments; Enhancement proposals are a great idea, but ultimately they will suffer with the exact same problem as other PRs, waiting on core devs. Unless a core dev has a particular interest in that specific EP, then you're pretty much waiting on a core dev to have "spare time" where they haven't got anything else they'd rather be doing, as well as not being paid to do it. That's not a dig at the core devs in any way, it's just a well established behaviour of open source contributors. Other projects have got around this issue by getting sponsorship and having an experienced full time person(s) keeping on top of things, leaving the rest of the core team to focus on getting the code done. Another alternative is to set a threshold on proposals, meaning that it has to be either accepted or rejected after a certain number of days since the last edit (by means of a vote count or key person decision). Really it comes down to two things.. keeping it simple enough for users to contribute easily, whilst enforcing a certain level of quality assurance, which can only be done by a trusted (and hopefully experienced) person. Personally I don't think Django has found the sweet spot for this yet. Cal On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Łukasz Rekucki <lreku...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Discussing DEPs on Github inside Pull Request comments seems like a > really bad idea, because it excludes a whole bunch of people that are > subscribed to this list (I always thought this was the sole purpose of > this list). > > The best thing about PEPs is that they always get posted to python-dev > in *full text* and the discussion happens there. The email thread then > gets recorded inside the PEP so that 10 years later you can easily > read the whole discussion. Github comments don't have this feature, > really. > > Throwing in my 2 cents, > Łukasz > > > On 8 May 2014 14:21, Florian Apolloner <f.apollo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > On Thursday, May 8, 2014 2:13:52 PM UTC+2, Carl wrote: > >> > >> Just noticed this message, and the DEP PRs are still open a week later. > >> > >> > >> Can someone shuffle this along, please? > > > > > > We are in the final stages of 1.7, I personally would rather focus on > that > > first. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Django developers" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/1d33bd04-a509-4c34-8bfe-2e4df31a3add%40googlegroups.com > . > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > Łukasz Rekucki > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAEZs-EL_x6PB9jYe_OWDfQUYvV%3DH5jA52EBCeFM50xcY%2BLRMTA%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAHKQagHFk-Pm5V5D%3D26n1HL-Ahq3zD%2BvCG2JVP1mfk2Qf41S5Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
