Re: Switching to Discourse

Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> Fri, 15 Jul 2022 10:59:14 -0700
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This might seem odd coming from me, but I’ve come around to supporting this move.  Discourse is not without its issues, but then again, the same can be said about email.  Without going into too much of my own personal preferences, I agree that the experiment has proven successful enough that there’s more value at this point in consolidating discussions.

Thank you for reaching out to see if there are any usability or workflow issues that might impact this decision.  There aren’t too much for me, but I wonder if there are accessibility or native language concerns that might unduly affect other users.

One thing I didn’t see mentioned is the question of identity.  There’s one side which is how folks self identify themselves on the mailing list or forum.  We don’t have any prohibitions against alias or nicknames, which IMHO is totally fine.  The flip side is more important, ensuring that folks identities can’t be spoofed or hijacked.  In email at least, I can digitally sign my messages (such as this one), and while it’s probably true that fewer and fewer folks use any kind of email digital signature verification, at least *I* can prove whether or not I wrote something.  What similar kinds of protections do we have on Discourse?

-Barry

> On Jul 15, 2022, at 04:18, Petr Viktorin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The discuss.python.org experiment has been going on for quite a while, and while the platform is not without its issues, we consider it a success. The Core Development category is busier than python-dev. According to staff, discuss.python.org is much easier to moderate.. If you're following python-dev but not discuss.python.org, you're missing out.
> 
> The Steering Council would like to switch from python-dev to discuss.python.org.
> Practically, this means:
> - Moving the required PEP announcements to discuss.python.org
> - Moving discuss.python.org up in the devguide communications page (https://devguide.python.org/communication/)
> - And that's it?
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