On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 9:51 PM C. Titus Brown <ctbr...@ucdavis.edu> wrote: > I’m responding to this message out of several on this topic, because it > brings up an interesting point - do we have good documents on this process > that are attached to python-ideas and/or core mentoring lists? >
Documents? I don't think so. > Should we provide a more explicit or detailed rationale for python-ideas, > based on this thread? We could make some or all of the following points — > That would be a great idea. Where should they be hosted? Once something along these lines exists, I would strongly recommend creating a GitHub issue template on the PEPs repo (and maybe others) that references it. > * python-ideas is for discussion of speculative ideas > > * the process is, (1) refine ideas here, (2) after broad acceptance of basic > premise, develop an informal writeup, (3) find a core dev sponsor who will > back turning this into a PEP > > * pointers to PEP 1, https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0001/, and Python > governance, https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0013/ > > * pointers to core mentorship list, > https://www.python.org/dev/core-mentorship/, and python developer > documentation, https://devguide.python.org > > * pointers to this thread > > * please note that the burden for adding features to the language is high > because you’re affecting so many people, increasing support burden, etc. etc. > > * note that everyone working on python is a volunteer, please respect their > time and effort. > > I could try drafting something and passing it by people on this list to see > what they think, but I’m wondering if I’m missing an obvious resource that I > could just link to in the python-ideas description. > If you are missing such a resource, then so am I. Also worth including: A section of "common misconceptions" such as "there's only one way to do it" and what's meant by "refuse to guess". You mention the burden for adding features; I'd perhaps go a little broader than that and talk about the significance of backward compatibility. This seems like a great idea... and, like every other good idea that goes through this list, it's going to get a ton of bike-shedding :) ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/U2UJSOLJ7HLHUYNGGLVPGVEIAMO7VELH/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
