On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:
> Both in reputation and in developer time. It doesn't help our image > when someone finds a module in our standard library that is > practically unmaintained and goes w/o having patches applied. I think > this is Jesse's motivation behind wanting owners of modules; since the > core devs are volunteers we only patch stuff we care about, which > leads to orphaned modules rotting in the stdlib. And tying into this, > having to patch and fix modules that are outdated and not widely used > is a waste of time when it could have been spent working on code that > is more impactful on the wider community. Brett is correct in my pain/motivation. _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
