Is there a way we can clarify the description of the PEPs category to say that it’s for proposing PEPs, rather than for discussing existing ones (e.g. I don’t think the recent PEP 8 thread belongs there).
I’m happy enough for those kinds of discussions to be sent to Core Development, which I’ll also see, but I like being able to treat new posts in the PEPs category as “important feature proposal that deserves my attention”, and would like to minimise the noise.
No strong preference on wording, and no real expectation that a category description change will fix everything, but I’m sure some people do make decent effort to choose a category and will appreciate being actively directed to Core Development for post-acceptance discussions.
(Edited to add: maybe direct “this needs fixing” to Core Development and “what about…” questions to Ideas?)
Also, Discourse users with a high enough trust level can move topics to different categories by clicking the pencil icon next to the title. I’ve just used it to move the PEP 8 topic to Core Development.
Trust Level 3 – Regular or higher can do that, except perhaps on some Discourse forums where the permissions have been reconfigured. On this forum, there are currently 159 at that level or above. See Badges / Regular for a list of all here who are currently included.
Note the details here regarding what those at the various trust levels can do by default:
Yes, best is to flag the first post you want moved for moderator attention using the “Something Else” option either saying “this post and all following” or “this list of posts: …”
Yes, but I often find it confusing to open “new” topics that are missing the context of the original thread, especially when I’ve not been following the original one.
It might be better to ask people to create new topics instead, and they can do it properly and fill in the required info.