[Python-Dev] PEP announcements, and summaries

[Andrew Kuchling]

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?

--amk