I've been following the lists and the bug tracker for some months and am beginning to contribute fairly trivial patches. I haven't done much yet, but I'm interested in the stdlib reorg. If rookies are welcomed, please count me in :-)
Quentin On Dec 6, 2007 5:14 AM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As Guido stated in a recent email, the stdlib reorg is going to be the > next big thing in Py3K-Land after a2 goes out the door. And since I > stuck my head out and wrote PEP 3108 and tried to spear-head a reorg > several times before, I am the de-facto junior dictator in charge of > the reorganization of the stdlib. > > The plan is to get this done by summer. While that might seem like a > long ways off, this is open source, so everyone's time is restricted. > Plus, as I know from personal experience, people love to argue over > how to organize stuff, and so the resulting flame wars always take up > time and energy. > > Plus I am only a single person and I know that my opinion does not > always mesh with everyone else out there (there is a reason why most > of my PEPs end up being heavily cut back =) . So I am asking anyone > who is interested in helping me out with this to reply to this thread. > That way most of the work can be done off-list in a more sane manner > first where I can keep the flames down to a minimum to actually get > this done without my getting blood pressure problems too early in > life. > > And remember that the reorg is not to make the stdlib some deeply > nested package (nor add a root package name!). It is to fix module > naming issues, remove obsolete stuff (both of which are pretty well > covered by PEP 3108), and to create some shallow packages (i.e., take > some top-level modules and put them into a single package with no > nesting). There might even be a module merger or two. > > So if this sounds interesting to you and you want to help me, let me know. > > -Brett > _______________________________________________ > Python-3000 mailing list > Python-3000@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/qgallet%40gmail.com >
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