I actually left that link alone so someone could follow the complete discussion from beginning to end, but it isn't worth holding the PR up over.

I actually left that link alone so someone could follow the complete discussion from beginning to end, but it isn't worth holding the PR up over.

Good point; in general it would seem to make sense to link the current/most recent active discussion, but I did check that you prominently linked the previous one in the OP of the current one (as you of course took care to do), so interested users can still follow it.

It would be nice to inline-link each Post-History date to the relevant thread, but we'd need to discuss that first since that would be a broader change in the header format.

It would be nice to inline-link each Post-History date to the relevant thread

I think I disagree here -- 'discussions-to' should be where one can currently post observations, questions, etc, not previous discussions. If PEP authors want to preserve previous links I would advise a footnote or similar noting that discussion on a previous version of the PEP took place at .

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I think I disagree here -- 'discussions-to' should be where one can currently post observations, questions, etc, not previous discussion

I agreed 100% with this—what I was saying is if we could allow inline links in the Post-History section, we could inline-link each post date with the relevant thread (mailing list, discouse, etc) which would track the history and be much more useful than just the date. But that's a subject for another issue, and might require changes to the header processing and rendering logic (which you'd likely be the best person to ask on that).

I agreed 100% with this

Sorry if I misinterpreted you, glad we agree!

allow inline links in the Post-History section ... inline-link each post date with the relevant thread

I'm maybe -0.5 on this, I think I'd need to be convinced some more, especially as some authors create new threads each time, some authors re-use the same thread, some authors post simultaneously to Discourse/Python-Dev/Typing-Sig/etc but may have a preference -- catering for all cases would be challenging.

Anyway, we should stop hijacking this thread for that putative discussion!

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Brett approved as a co-author above, merging now.

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Anyway, we should stop hijacking this thread for that putative discussion!

Agreed; mentioned and replied on #2266