On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 1:16 PM Donald Stufft don...@stufft.io <http://mailto:don...@stufft.io> wrote:
I think one of the big trade offs here, is that the traditional mailing > list can work very well if everyone involved takes the time to develop a > custom tool chain that fits their own workflow perfectly and if they spend > the time learning the deficiency of the systems to ensure they correctly > work around them. The web forum thing can theoretically achieve much less > of a theoretical “maximum” for productivity, but it typically means that > you can bring productivity gains to those who can’t or won’t spend time > maintaining a custom mailing stack. > This is an excellent point, and is similar to one that was made on a similar discussion at the start of the year <https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2016-January/038210.html>. That thread focused more on Discourse <https://www.discourse.org/> as a potential alternative to the mailing list for python-ideas, but a lot of the arguments being made here on both sides are a repetition of what was discussed there (and probably of what has been discussed several times over the course of many years). Nick
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