OK, I lied: one last post. I see no problem with posting a message to whatever group seems most appropriate and including a pointer to the discussion on this thread. That's not "dragging edu-sig into a political role" it's simply avoiding rehashing what I think has been a fruitful discussion. This is a public forum, and we should be willing to bring the discussion that occurs here to others who might (should?) have an interest.
--John On Friday 08 September 2006 11:41 am, kirby urner wrote: > On 9/8/06, Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't understand your strong reaction. OK -- saying "if Python 3k > > takes away input() then I'm going to use Ruby" is pretty lame and will > > keep an opinion from being taken seriously. But all Doug was talking > > about was registering the opinion of people on edu-sig, who are not on > > the py-dev, and who care about these functions where most everyone else > > is merely indifferent. There's no formal process one way or the other; > > all you can do is register your opinion, there's no vote, it's not a > > democracy, but that doesn't mean that participation doesn't matter. > > > > -- > > Ian Bicking | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://blog.ianbicking.org > > We have PEPs, forums for debating them, venues in which it's the job > of professionals to pay attention. What is someone to make of a > "petition" showing up in an inbox, somehow stamped was belonging to > Edu-Sig, which is native Python infrastructure. What's it supposed to > mean? "Take me seriously just because I'm a Python SIG?" Why? > > If someone wants to circulate a petition, fine, but don't drag edu-sig > into it, is my attitude. That's not what edu-sig is about. It's not > a political forum for teachers who are too lazy or otherwise > preoccupied, to avoid doing their homework as to how Python's > development process is already managed. > > Do people send petitions to Linus Torvalds about what they'd like in > the kernel? Maybe they do. Sounds pretty lame to me if they do. > > I would hate to see edu-sig debased into some spectator group that > sees its mission as kibbitzing about Python 3000, second guessing what > the core language developers are up to. That'd just kill the worth of > this group to me. I'd hate too see so much good work destroyed by > politicians. > > Kirby > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig -- John M. Zelle, Ph.D. Wartburg College Professor of Computer Science Waverly, IA [EMAIL PROTECTED] (319) 352-8360 _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
