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discuss.python.org

A very long topic https://discuss.python.org/t/lock-files-again-but-this-time-w-sdists/46593

  • 17 days
  • 291 replies
  • 43 users
  • 7.1k views
  • Frequent posters: 8 people with over 10 posts; 51, 35, 32, 24, 20 as top 5
  • Popular links: 50
  • Estimated read time of 155 minutes

Estimated read time

Approximately 2.5 hours to read the entire top and join the conversation now. Yes, there are folks that are trying to catch up now.

A reader's options after 17 days

  1. Devote 2.5 hours to read
  2. Skim and hope for the key points
  3. Ask someone to summarize
  4. Try to follow from where the conversation is.

What would help?

Discourse AI - Summarization plugin

https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-summarization/262711

Admins can use via summarization_strategy site: 

A collection of open-source models from HuggingFace: bart-large-cnn-samsum, flan-t5-base-samsum, and long-t5-tglobal-base-16384-book-summary.
OpenAI ChatGPT, using either gpt-3.5-turbo or gpt-4.
Anthropic Claude’s V1 and V2 models.
Discourse didn't find existing models good enough and switched to LLMs

Fairly inflexible at the moment

Another option Merfield's plugin

https://github.com/merefield/discourse-ai-topic-summary

Ruby - Discourse bot

JavaScript - Display on page