On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 11:21 AM Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote: > > On 20Sep2018 10:16, Chris Barker - NOAA Federal <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > >Let's just keep it on email -- I, at least, find i never participate in any > >other type of discussion forum regularly. > > As do I. Email comes to me. Forums, leaving aside their ergonomic horrors > (subjective), require a visit.
So you are ok with 100 emails / day, like it happened when inline assignment discussion erupted? I think there are forum systems which allow you to post by email so it is possible to get the same effect as with mailing list, if you really want. I think most people want the ability to choose what topic they want to receive notification and its not possible. As for ergonomics - it depends on forum software and design. If I use some site frequently and it has bad layout/colors/fonts, then I use Stylish plugin to customize the CSS. Therefore I'd prefer forum with minimalistic CSS to easily customize the look. OTOH if the mailing software has bad ergonomics, I can't do much with that. Or if people post a word and leave 5 pages quote below or messed up formatting - I can't do anything with that. On a good forum systems such things are less probable = less annoyance in general. I see 2 major problems: 1. The mentioned mass mail delivery 2. PEPs and discussion browsing is far from effective - I'd like a better way to browse PEPs - for example filtering by topics, eg. "syntax", "module X", by their status, etc, and of course discoverable relevant discussion. Systems used in Stackoverflow, Github already offer these features. I personally would like Stackoverflow-like format for presenting PEPs + discussion below, so everybody can easily browse PEPs and related info in one place. Mikhail _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/