Re: Porting mailing list underused?

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From	Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject	Re: Porting mailing list underused?
Date	Sat, 11 Jan 2014 21:51:53 +0000
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On 10/01/2014 21:31, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 10/01/2014 20:38, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>>> Anyone in the
>>> know who can explain this phenomenon?
>>
>> I don't think I can explain it authoritatively, but I can hazard a
>> guess. Skimming the archives sorted by author, it looks like most/all
>> the correspondents are Python core developers. That leads me to
>> believe this was a list created for the core Python developers to
>> discuss issues related to porting tools such as 2to3 or six. I doubt
>> it was intended for Python programmers to get help porting their own
>> code. From the Python core development perspective, I think automated
>> porting tools are likely pretty mature at this point and don't warrant
>> a lot of discussion.
>>
>> Skip
>>
>
> If the dumbo OP had remembered to say that
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-porting states rather
> vaguely "This list is to contain discussion of porting Python code
> between versions, mainly from Python 2.x to 3.x." it might have helped
> garner more answers.  Still, if we leave the list open for long enough
> we'll all be able to discuss porting python 2.x to python 4.x :)
>

I've now found this 
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-December/083951.html

QUOTE
It is a public mailing list open to everyone.  We expect active 
participation of many people porting their libraries/programs, and hope 
that the list can be a help to all wanting to go this (not always smooth 
:-) way.
ENDQUOTE

Strikes me that if more people had participated, or maybe even known 
about it, we currently wouldn't be on the edge of WWIII regarding PEP 460.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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