Andrew Kuchling wrote: > > One thing about the reaction to the 2.1 alphas is that many people > seem *surprised* by some of the changes, even though PEPs have been > written, discussed, and mentioned in python-dev summaries. Maybe the > PEPs and their status need to be given higher visibility; I'd suggest > sending a brief note of status changes (new draft PEPs, acceptance, > rejection) to comp.lang.python.announce. > > Also, I'm wondering if it's worth continuing the python-dev summaries, > because, while they get a bunch of hits on news sites such as Linux > Today and may be good PR, I'm not sure that they actually help Python > development. They're supposed to let people offer timely comments on > python-dev discussions while it's still early enough to do some good, > but that doesn't seem to happen; I don't see python-dev postings that > began with something like "The last summary mentioned you were talking > about X. I use X a lot, and here's what I think: ...". Is anything > much lost if the summaries cease? I think that the Python community would lose some touch with the Python development process and there are currently no other clearly visible resources which a Python user can link to unless he or she happens to know of the existence of python-dev. Some things which could be done to improve this: * add a link to the python-dev archive directly from www.python.org * summarize the development process somewhere on python.org and add a link "development" to the page titles * fix the "community" link to point to a page which provides links to all the community tools available for Python on the web, e.g. Starship, Parnassus, SF-tools, FAQTS, etc. * add a section "devtools" which points programmers to existing Python programming tools such as IDLE, PythonWare, Wing IDE, BlackAdder, etc. And while I'm at it :) * add a section "applications" to produce some more awareness that Python is being used in real life applications * some kind of self-maintained projects page would also be a nice thing to have, e.g. a Wiki-style reference to projects seeking volunteers to help; this could also be referenced in the community section -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Company: http://www.egenix.com/ Consulting: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
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