communication.html#mailing lists

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Source: https://cpython-devguide.readthedocs.io/communication.html#mailing-lists

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12.1. Mailing Lists

Python has mailing lists that cover different topics and locations around the world. Before you join a mailing list, check to see that it fits your needs and what want to learn. Here are some commonly-used lists.

• Python-dev is the primary mailing list for discussions about Python's development. The list is open to the public and is subscribed to by all core developers plus many people simply interested in following Python's development. Discussion is focused on issues related to Python's development, such as how to handle a specific issue, a PEP, etc.:: Ideas about new functionality are not intended for this list, but can be sent to python-ideas_. Technical support questions are also not intended for this list, but can be sent to python-list_ or python-help_.
• Python-list and Tutor are for general Python questions, in addition to similar resources, such as StackOverflow or the #python IRC channel on Freenode.
• Python-ideas is a mailing list open to the public to discuss ideas on changing Python. New ideas sometimes get redirected here.
• Python-list is a mailing list where people post new ideas to gather community opinion before heading to Python-ideas. The list is also sometimes known as comp.lang.python, the name of the newsgroup it mirrors (it is also known by the abbreviation c.l.py).
• Python-committers is a private mailing list for core developers (the archives are publicly available). If something only affects core developers (e.g., the tree is frozen for commits, etc.), it is discussed here instead of Python-dev to keep traffic down on the latter.
• Python-checkins sends out an email for every commit to Python's various repositories from https://github.com/python/cpython. All core developers subscribe to this list and are known to reply to these emails to make comments about various issues they catch in the commit. Replies get redirected to Python-dev.

There are two mailing lists related to issues found on the Issue tracker:

• New-bugs-announce is mailing list that sends an email when a new issue is open.
• Python-bugs-list is mailing list that sends an email for all changes made to any issue.

A complete list of Python mailing lists can be found at http://mail.python.org. Most lists are also mirrored at http://news.gmane.org/ and can be read and posted to in various ways, including via web browsers, NNTP newsreaders, and RSS feed readers.