PEP 101: Stop announcing releases on MLs

[hugovk]

We've been retiring mailing lists in favour of Discourse (python-dev, python-committers, typing-sig, python-ideas, translations).

Let's stop sending the release announcements to the mailing lists.

I spoke with @Yhg1s at the sprint, and decided we'll mention this plan in the 3.14.0rc3 email, then do a final one with 3.14.0 final, and then we can stop sending them out entirely.

Release announcements can still be found on Discourse and the blog.

cc @savannahostrowski

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[ned-deily]

I understand that MLs are old-skool technology and their use has greatly declined so, even though the overhead of posting release announcments to the MLs is very small, ... progress. We should keep in mind, though, that these MLs are documented at various spots in our documentation and our website, so those refs should be updated, and the mailing lists are cross-posted to other media, like gmane.* and Usenet groups, so the size of the readership for the MLs is difficult to estimate and it may make sense to provide a longer transition period.

[AA-Turner]

Are the notes re python-cabal still relevant? Also the note on acquiring an email address (following para) might need to be updated to account for Sigstore.

A

[willingc]

@ned-deily Would it be ok to only post to the Announcements mailing list?

[ned-deily]

Would it be ok to only post to the Announcements mailing list?

@willingc, sure. As long as other Python-related projects are still posting to the Announcements mailing list, we probably should continue to.

[Yhg1s]

Posting to python-announce@ is the thing we're talking about stopping. Part of the reason is the hassle of crafting the message, because the markup is different from discourse/the blog. The blog is awkward for its own reasons, but at least it's editable. Email is not.

[ned-deily]

The release script could just generate a templated plain text email that essentially just contains a link to the nicely-formatted Discourse and/or blog post. But it wouldn't be the end of the world if it didn't.