Re: ANN: eGenix mxODBC Connect - Python Database Interface 2.0.1

Russell Keith-Magee wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:10 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> wrote:
>> Russell Keith-Magee wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 8:11 PM, winniehell <django@winniehell.de> wrote:
>>>> We had a little private discussion about this. Is this list meant to be
>>>> for product announcements? I personally don't like to get product
>>>> announcements on mailing lists because I'm in most cases not interested
>>>> in the offered products.
>>>
>>> We don't prohibit commercial announcements, but they need to be on
>>> topic, and the poster needs to show some moderation -- we don't mind
>>> an occasional major announcement, but a weekly point release
>>> notification would be excessive.
>>
>> Does Django have an announcement list that we could use for
>> announcements like these ?
>
> We have an announcements list, but it's for official Django
> announcements, and we don't want other commercial material on that
> list because when we post to it, we *need* people to pay attention
> (for security updates, and so on).
>
> As for a 'django community announcements' list: I can see how that
> might be useful, but I can also see that it introduces a whole bunch
> of new headaches. We have enough problems getting people to post to
> the right list when there is only two (django-users and django-dev);
> adding a third has the potential to just confuse things more...

For Python we're using a moderated list and it's been working well
for the past 12 years or so :-)

http://python.org/community/lists/

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2012-10-29: PyCon DE 2012, Leipzig, Germany ... 32 days to go
2012-10-23: Python Meeting Duesseldorf ... 26 days to go
2012-09-26: Released mxODBC.Connect 2.0.1 ... http://egenix.com/go34
2012-09-25: Released mxODBC 3.2.1 ... http://egenix.com/go33


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