On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:40:00 +0100, <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Le Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:46:41 +0100, Martin v. Löwis a écrit : > >>> It's time to comment and review. > >> Unfortunately, it's not. I strongly object to any substantial change to > >> the code base without explicit approval by Fredrik Lundh. > > > > Which most probably puts elementtree in bugfix-only mode. I don't > > necessarily disagree with such a decision, but it must be quite clear. > > My point is that the decision as already made when ElementTree was > incorporated into the standard library; it's the same policy for most > code that Fredrik Lundh has contributed (and which he still maintains > outside the standard library as well). He has made it fairly clear on > several occasions that this is how he expects things to work, and unless > we want to truly fork the code, we should comply.
Guido has already pretty much answered this concern, but for the bystanders, note that as I understand it the patch actually brings the standard library code in sync with Fredrick's codebase, so it is actually less of a fork than continuing to do our own bug fixes would be. And Frederick has commented on the patch on Reitveld. --David
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