Re: Proposal: rename django-developers to django-contributors

[Michael Manfre]

Renaming a large mailing list is a non-trivial task that will result in causing confusion for everyone subscribed to the list, instead of a the occasional person posting to the wrong list. I cannot speak on behalf of Django, but I think renaming the list is as likely to happen as Django 1.8 being a clean rewrite in PHP.

Regards,

Michael Manfre

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Wim Feijen <w...@go2people.nl> wrote:

Hi all,

Many people post django-users questions to this group by accident. I find the name of our group to be misleading: it seems to refer to people who develop in django, but actually it is meant for people contributing to django.

To limit confusion, my proposal is to rename django-developers to django-contributors. 

In addition, maybe django-users can be renamed as well, because the concept of a User in django is different from a django programmer.

Regards,

Wim

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[Russell Keith-Magee]

Allow me to confirm this.

Search through the archives; this suggestion has been made several times in the past. Essentially, it comes down to the fact that you can't solve a social problem with technology. No matter what name we choose, *someone* will be able to misinterpret that name to mean "Oh, that's where I should be posting". Given that *some* confusion is inevitable, and there's a cost to changing the name, the repeated decision has been to stick with what we've got, however imperfect it may be.

Yours,

Russ Magee %-)