Re: Moving source code to Github. What to do with mailing list?

Lars Buitinck <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.pyro
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2013/7/2 Irmen de Jong <[email protected]>:
> This brings us to the mailing list. It has served the Pyro project faithfully for a
> LONG time: since march 2002. I'm wondering if the features of Github (gist, code
> comments, issue trackers) could perhaps replace the mailing list? What are your
> thoughts about this? (The mailing list is the only string that still ties Pyro to
> sourceforge.net)

In scikit-learn, we operate an ML as well as a GitHub repo. The latter
is fine for bug tracking and getting patches, but for user support and
extended discussion, email is much better suited. SciPy, Cython and
other big Python projects have the same strategy.

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