On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 10:21 AM James Lu <jam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Not personally with Brett, but I have seen multiple people try to stop the > “reword or remove beautiful is better than ugly in Zen of Python.” The > discussion was going in circles and evolved into attacking each other’s use > of logical fallacies. > > Other than that, my biggest issues with the current mailing system are: > > * There’s no way to keep a updated proposal of your own- if you decide to > change your proposal, you have to communicate the change. Then, if you want > to find the authoritative current copy, since you might’ve forgotten or you > want to join he current discussion, then you have to dig through the emails > and recursively apply the proposed change. It’s just easier if people can > have one proposal they can edit themselves. >
That's what the PEP system exists for. But with the "remove the word ugly from the zen" proposal, it's not serious enough for anyone to actually want to write up a PEP about it. Normally, what happens is that the "authoritative current copy" can always be found at https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-????/ for some well-known PEP number. That PEP generally has a single authoritative author (sometimes two or three, but always a small number). For any proposal that actually has currency, this system does work (well enough that I've wanted to introduce something like it in other contexts). ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
