On a PEP/Ideas topic that seems to be looking for a category home, I asked about adding the ‘General Discussion’ category discussed here and @brettcannon replied:
I personally wasn’t planning on it as it feels like it would overlap too much with Ideas and be too hard to explain the differences.
It looked like @Quercus had summarized the settled questions in a fairly recent post:
Since the Ideas category is for language changes (“change something in Python”), the difference between that and General Discussion should be pretty clear.
I think the safe bet is that Ideas will get diluted/polluted with general discussion topics if no separate category is provided.
Was this point not as much of a consensus as it appeared to be? Is this a case of the ‘Chairman’ voting rather than just being the Chairman? (The Chair generally refrains from voting due to the extra influence they hold, and votes only when they would break a tie.)
From the discussion here, it looks like a General Discussions category is needed and valuable. Is this still the case?