Aahz> Excuse me? What decline of this newsgroup? Andrew> .... But my personal impression is that over the years various Andrew> people who used to post here now stay pretty firmly in the dev Andrew> group, while others seem to have disappeared more or less Andrew> completely <wink>.
People come and go, that's true. That's to be expected though. I certainly find many of the "newer" folks more than capable replacements for people you don't see around here (much) anymore. Maybe you just aren't as familiar with some of the new names. I think if you intersect the set of frequent posters here and with the frequent posters in python-dev (say, those who post more than a few times a month) you'll find a fairly large intersection, and that intersection will include some of the most active Python core developers. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list