On Fri, 14 May 2021 at 19:51, Senthil Kumaran <sent...@python.org> wrote: > > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 11:07:12AM -0700, Brett Cannon wrote: > > > You could launch a poll on discuss.python.org and see if there's a clear > > winner. > > Yes, after hearing some opinions, I plan to do that. Right now, I guess > the choices I am thinking are > > - No, I am not interested in Chat. > - Focus on #python-dev IRC > - Focus on Zulip. Keep #python-dev for alerts. > - Gitter > - Discord > - Slack > > Platform + Community (number of votes) might help us come to a > consensus.
The problem with this, I think, is that my choice would be * Whichever one people actually used In other words, this isn't a technology problem, it's a people problem. Do enough of the core devs actually *want* to hang out in a chat forum to achieve critical mass and make it worthwhile? Also, what would we talk about? Would it only be for things like "hey, does anybody know how X works, because I'm looking at bpo-xxxx" or would "social" conversations be acceptable? How far would that go? Funny cat videos? I'm half joking, but the truth is that a community is more than just technical questions, but I don't know how many of us would like that sort of community. But conversely, a platform that people simply "pop in to" when they have a question won't last very long. Paul _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-committers-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-committers.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-committers@python.org/message/M7EY5O7LKJR5TUQ2F5Z4G66GVB22QDSQ/ Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
