[Numpy-discussion] Re: spam on the mailing lists

2021-10-01 Thread Ilhan Polat
Judging by the support of it, I'll check whether I missed the whole point of Discourse when I was trying to use it, in the meantime. On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 7:57 PM Stephan Hoyer wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 10:21 AM Ilhan Polat wrote: > >> > GitHub Discussions is more of a Q&A platform, like

[Numpy-discussion] Re: spam on the mailing lists

2021-10-01 Thread Stephan Hoyer
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 10:21 AM Ilhan Polat wrote: > > GitHub Discussions is more of a Q&A platform, like Stackoverflow. I > don't think it really makes sense for free form discussion. > > I don't see how it is to be honest. I'm hearing this complaint quite > often but I can't see how that is. T

[Numpy-discussion] Re: spam on the mailing lists

2021-10-01 Thread Charles R Harris
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 9:50 AM Robert Kern wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 3:35 AM Andras Deak wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Today both of the python.org mailing lists I'm subscribed to (numpy and >> scipy-dev) got the same kind of link shortener spam. I assume all the >> mailing lists started gett

[Numpy-discussion] Re: spam on the mailing lists

2021-10-01 Thread Ilhan Polat
> I’m firmly against GH discussions because of the upvoting mechanism. We don’t need to be Reddit or SO. .NET had a bad experience with the discussions as well [1]. They are not used, by default, it's date ordered you can choose whichever. Voting plays no role unless you want to sort by votes. >

[Numpy-discussion] Re: spam on the mailing lists

2021-10-01 Thread Stephan Hoyer
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 8:55 AM Matthew Brett wrote: > Only to say that: > > * I used to have a very firm preference for mail, because I'm pretty > happy with Gmail as a mail interface, and I didn't want to have > another channel I had to monitor, but > * I've spent more time on Discourse over the

[Numpy-discussion] Re: spam on the mailing lists

2021-10-01 Thread Matthew Brett
Only to say that: * I used to have a very firm preference for mail, because I'm pretty happy with Gmail as a mail interface, and I didn't want to have another channel I had to monitor, but * I've spent more time on Discourse over the last year, mainly on Jupyter, but I have also set up instances f

[Numpy-discussion] Re: spam on the mailing lists

2021-10-01 Thread Robert Kern
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 3:35 AM Andras Deak wrote: > Hi All, > > Today both of the python.org mailing lists I'm subscribed to (numpy and > scipy-dev) got the same kind of link shortener spam. I assume all the > mailing lists started getting these, and that these won't go away for a > while. > Gi

[Numpy-discussion] Re: spam on the mailing lists

2021-10-01 Thread Rohit Goswami
I’m firmly against GH discussions because of the upvoting mechanism. We don’t need to be Reddit or SO. .NET had a bad experience with the discussions as well [1]. [1] https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/issues/29935 — Rohit On 1 Oct 2021, at 15:04, Andras Deak wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at

[Numpy-discussion] Re: spam on the mailing lists

2021-10-01 Thread Andras Deak
On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:27 PM Ilhan Polat wrote: > The reason why I mentioned GH discussions is that literally everybody who > is engaged with the code, is familiar with the format, included in the > codebase product and has replies in built unlike the Discourse (opinion is > mine) useless flat

[Numpy-discussion] Re: Contributing to Numpy (non coder)

2021-10-01 Thread Melissa Mendonça
Hello and welcome! You are certainly welcome to start contributing. Since you mentioned educational content, we are always interested in tutorial suggestions for https://github.com/numpy/numpy-tutorials. If you are interested in technical writing from the development point of view, we do have a b

[Numpy-discussion] Re: spam on the mailing lists

2021-10-01 Thread Ilhan Polat
The reason why I mentioned GH discussions is that literally everybody who is engaged with the code, is familiar with the format, included in the codebase product and has replies in built unlike the Discourse (opinion is mine) useless flat discussion design where replies are all over the place just

[Numpy-discussion] Re: spam on the mailing lists

2021-10-01 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 1:57 PM Rohit Goswami wrote: > > I guess then the approach overall would evolve to something like using the > mailing list to announce discourse posts which need input. Though I would > assume that the web interface essentially makes the mailing list almost like > di

[Numpy-discussion] Re: spam on the mailing lists

2021-10-01 Thread Rohit Goswami
I guess then the approach overall would evolve to something like using the mailing list to announce discourse posts which need input. Though I would assume that the web interface essentially makes the mailing list almost like discourse, even for new users. The real issue IMO is still the modera

[Numpy-discussion] Re: spam on the mailing lists

2021-10-01 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 1:54 AM Rohit Goswami wrote: > > Although it is true that discourse is easier for newcomers in a lot of ways, > it is far worse for governance and consensus. The mailing list, by having > essentially sequential topics sent out to all subscribers is easier to keep > t

[Numpy-discussion] Contributing to Numpy (non coder)

2021-10-01 Thread andresguzman26222014
Hello everyone, I´m an student of Data Science and a technical writer, and I would like to contribute to NumPy. The problem is that even though I know the basics of Github, I´m not a Developer. I would like to know about these listed options of contributing: https://numpy.org/doc/stable/dev/index

[Numpy-discussion] Contributing to Numpy

2021-10-01 Thread andresguzman26222014
Hello everyone, I´m an student of Data Science and a technical writer, and I would like to contribute to NumPy. The problem is that even though I know the basics of Github, I´m not a Developer. I would like to know about these listed options of contributing: https://numpy.org/doc/stable/dev/index