On 2018-07-13, Ethan Furman wrote:
> I stopped reading the PEP 572 threads once it was painfully
> obvious that almost all new replies were just saying the same
> things over and over and over...
Perhaps this can be seen as a kind of economic problem. What is the
cost of posting to a PEP discussi
On 2018-07-12, Yury Selivanov wrote:
> One way would be to re-elect them every 5 or so years. Essentially,
> an N-virate is a dictator-like entity for a few years.
Modeling the body after a supreme court seems like a good idea.
They don't have to make day-to-day decisions, only settle disputes
th
On 2017-11-06, R. David Murray wrote:
> I'm curious which ones you are seeing it in? It could be we are
> operating in different problem spaces :)
In the last few months: Pillow, docutils, dateutil. Some of them
could have been PendingDeprecationWarning, I'm not sure. I had that
enabled as well
On 2017-11-06, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Gah, seven years on from Python 2.7's release, I still get caught by
> that. I'm tempted to propose we reverse that decision and go back to
> enabling them by default :P
Either enable them by default or make them really easy to enable for
development evironment
On 2017-01-25, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
> I think this is the next frontier for Python maintenance; we need
> full-time core maintainers, no third parties are funding any such
> developers, and the PSF doesn't seem interested in pursuing that.
IMHO, the PSF should be doing it. I don't know exactly ho
On 2017-01-24, Victor Stinner wrote:
> You should take a look at this old deferred PEP:
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0407/
Thanks, that's very close to what I was thinking. I would still add
that we should be extra careful about incompatible language features
until 2.7.x usage has mostly
On 2017-01-21, Brett Cannon wrote:
> So the common theme here regardless of whether you agree with Raymond or
> Victor's approach to development is that we are not getting enough code
> reviews to go around. To me that's what the systemic issue is that this
> email is bringing up.
I think there is
On 2015-12-15, Vinay Sajip wrote:
> Brett Cannon python.org> writes:
> > Also realize that anyone who says they will walk away will be held to
> > their word; if we still choose to switch to GitHub I will expect you to
> > no longer contribute to Python and will personally hold you to your word
>
