Looks great to me! Only thing missing that I can think of is sticking Eric down as the guy who does str.format(). =)
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:14, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> wrote: > I floated a proposal on stdlib-sig to create a file named > Misc/maintainers.rst. The purpose of this file is to collect knowledge > about who knows which modules well enough to make decision about issues > in the tracker when the participants in the issue aren't sure, and to > write down the community knowledge about who has special interest and > expertise in specific topic areas. > > This proposal was met with approval and, after a couple of small > modifications of the proposal, no dissent; so I've created the skeleton > of the file. I've filled in some of the blanks where I had personal > knowledge, was told info on IRC, from the two referenced PEPs, and > from PEP 11. > > Feel free to respond with comments about the header text, but more > importantly let me know what you know about who (especially if it is you) > should be listed for each module, platform, and topic, and feel free to > suggest additional topics. My goal is to record the community knowledge. > > Another topic of discussion that is orthogonal to filling in the table is > whether or not to publish it outside the repository. Jesse would like to > see it included in the Python Documentation, and Georg has suggested the > possibility of creating a separate, sphinx-based, automatically-uploaded > document collection in the repository to contain this and related > information (Misc/devdocs?). > > The module list was built from the py3k documentation module index, with > the addition of 'pybench' from PEP 291. If there are other modules/tools > that are missing, or submodules that should be broken out into > separate lines, please let me know. > > After the initial flurry of updates and comments dies down I will check > this in. > > --David > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Maintainers Index > ================= > > This document cross references Python Modules (first table) and platforms > (second table) with the Tracker user names of people who are experts > and/or resources for that module or platform. This list is intended > to be used by issue submitters, issue triage people, and other issue > participants to find people to add to the nosy list or to contact > directly by email for help and decisions on feature requests and bug > fixes. People on this list may be asked to render final judgement on a > feature or bug. If no active maintainer is listed for a given module, > then questionable changes should go to python-dev, while any other issues > can and should be decided by any committer. > > The last part of this document is a third table, listing broader topic > areas in which various people have expertise. These people can also > be contacted for help, opinions, and decisions when issues involve > their areas. > > If a listed maintainer does not respond to requests for comment for an > extended period (three weeks or more), they should be marked as inactive > in this list by placing the word 'inactive' in parenthesis behind their > tracker id. They are of course free to remove that inactive mark at > any time. > > Committers should update this table as their areas of expertise widen. > New topics may be added to the third table at will. > > The existence of this list is not meant to indicate that these people > *must* be contacted for decisions; it is, rather, a resource to be used > by non-committers to find responsible parties, and by committers who do > not feel qualified to make a decision in a particular context. > > See also `PEP 291`_ and `PEP 360`_ for information about certain modules > with special rules. > > .. _`PEP 291`: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0291/ > .. _`PEP 360`: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0360/ > > > ================== =========== > Module Maintainers > ================== =========== > __future__ > __main__ gvanrossum > _dummy_thread brett.cannon > _thread > abc > aifc r.david.murray > array > ast > asynchat josiahcarlson > asyncore josiahcarlson > atexit > audioop > base64 > bdb > binascii > binhex > bisect > builtins > bz2 > calendar > cgi > cgitb > chunk > cmath > cmd > code > codecs > codeop > collections > colorsys > compileall > configparser > contextlib > copy > copyreg > cProfile > crypt > csv > ctypes theller > curses > datetime > dbm > decimal > difflib > dis > distutils tarek > doctest > dummy_threading brett.cannon > email barry > encodings > errno > exceptions > fcntl > filecmp > fileinput > fnmatch > formatter > fpectl > fractions > ftplib > functools > gc > getopt > getpass > gettext > glob > grp > gzip > hashlib > heapq > hmac > html > http > imaplib > imghdr > imp > importlib brett.cannon > inspect > io pitrou, benjamin.peterson > itertools > json > keyword > lib2to3 benjamin.peterson > linecache > locale > logging vsajip > macpath > mailbox > mailcap > marshal > math > mimetypes > mmap > modulefinder theller, jvr > msilib > msvcrt > multiprocessing jnoller > netrc > nis > nntplib > numbers > operator > optparse aronacher > os > ossaudiodev > parser > pdb > pickle > pickletools > pipes > pkgutil > platform lemburg > plistlib > poplib > posix > pprint > pstats > pty > pwd > py_compile > pybench lemburg > pyclbr > pydoc > queue > quopri > random > re > readline > reprlib > resource > rlcompleter > runpy > sched > select > shelve > shlex > shutil > signal > site > smtpd > smtplib > sndhdr > socket > socketserver > spwd > sqlite3 > ssl > stat > string > stringprep > struct > subprocess astrand (inactive) > sunau > symbol > symtable > sys > syslog > tabnanny > tarfile > telnetlib > tempfile > termios > test > textwrap > threading > time > timeit > tkinter gpolo > token > tokenize > trace > traceback > tty > turtle gregorlingl > types > unicodedata > unittest michael.foord > urllib > uu > uuid > warnings > wave > weakref > webbrowser georg.brandl > winreg > winsound > wsgiref pje > xdrlib > xml loewis > xml.etree effbot (inactive) > xmlrpc loewis > zipfile > zipimport > zlib > ================== =========== > > > ================== =========== > Platform Maintainer > ------------------ ----------- > AIX > Cygwin jlt63 > FreeBSD > Linux > Mac ronaldoussoren > NetBSD1 > OS2/EMX aimacintyre > Solaris > HP-UX > ================== =========== > > > ================== =========== > Interest Area Maintainers > ------------------ ----------- > algorithms > ast/compiler > autoconf > bsd > buildbots > data formats > database > documentation georg.brandl > GUI > i18n > import machinery brett.cannon > io pitrou, benjamin.peterson > locale > makefiles > mathematics marketdickinson, eric.smith > memory management > networking > packaging release management > time and dates > testing michael.foord > threads > unicode windows > ================== =========== > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/brett%40python.org > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
