On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 at 11:04 Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > On Jul 19, 2018, at 08:41, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > > Then we would have to solve our governance problem sooner rather than > later. But i don't think every Python release has to make a huge splash. > > The other option of course is to push the release date of Python 3.8 back > to accommodate the new governance structure. > > > On Jul 18, 2018, at 19:23, Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Unsure! Governance is needed to resolve conflict. When there's broad > agreement, "leaders" aren't really needed. For example, there's been a bit > of talk on python-ideas about adding a new `intmath` module capturing some > frequently reinvented functions for which decent implementations are known > but non-obvious (e.g., for generating the primes). Nobody could sanely > fight to death against something like that. Even whining about it would > appear petty ;-) > > > I don’t necessarily include new modules, other stdlib changes, build or > performance improvements, and other such “normal development” work (i.e. > bug fixing) to be affected by a language moratorium. PEP 572-level > decisions would very definitely fall under that rubric. > > We have plenty of experts still in place that can make more minor > decisions. In fact, perhaps we should largely operate as if our BDFL were > just on a long vacation and not pronouncing on PEPs. That’s never frozen > Python development before, and shouldn’t now. > > If PEP 572 were the only new syntax for 3.8, then so be it. >
That last time we had a language moratorium we allowed new stdlib modules ( https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3003/).
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