On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 12:05 PM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 10:25 AM Charalampos Stratakis <cstra...@redhat.com> > wrote: > >> Does it really matter that much in regards to the specific context? If >> someone poses problematic behavior (as it seems, as I'm not familiar with >> any specifics here), maintenance of a module should be the last of the >> worries. There are many pieces in the stdlib which remain or have remained >> unmaintained for years. Maybe someone could pick up the pace, maybe not. >> > > I agree with Charalampos here. I am NOT opining on any specifics of > problematic behavior or the SCs actions. > > But many module contributors or maintainers become unavailable for many > different reasons. We cannot, and should not, rest these broader > collaboration decisions on some specific expertise, which we cannot > guarantee will remain regardless of SC actions. If needed, hopefully > someone else can pick up _decimal. But the same principle applies to any > module mostly maintained by anyone else who has contributed. Things happen > in people's life, quite independent of CoC issues. >
This is also why the SC has emphasized multiple times that no one "owns" anything in CPython. We obviously have experts, but spreading knowledge is an important part to maintaining a large, open source project like this. If that hasn't happened for _decimal then that's something to fix. And to put a very fine point on it: we literally had a primary maintainer of a module die, so there is absolutely zero guarantee that someone will ever come back to contribute past their last contribution. -Brett > > -- > The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the > not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse > the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, > become abortifacients against new conceptions. > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/2UQX46YPBBMV4EUCEVI4TNNZQLQHZDI6/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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