On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Georg Brandl <g.bra...@gmx.net> wrote:
>> How much of the rest of the standard libs can claim that? > > Not much, and this is a problem. How often have I wished for an official > maintainer for some module, who I could defer a tracker issue to and say > "please decide NOW whether this is a valid bug/request". There are literally > hundreds of issues that could either be closed immediately as rejected/ > wontfix or fixed with a small effort as soon as somebody makes the decision. Bingo. Yes. Correct. > Of course, for modules without a specific maintainer, we're all supposed to > share the job, but it simply doesn't work out. I do fix bugs that are > obviously > bugs, but in more involved situations I often simply don't feel "qualified" > enough to do so. Often a maintainer wouldn't even need special skills, but > simply be there to take the blame and make decisions, complete with fixing the > problems that arise from them later. Also correct - this and the latter issue is exactly why I am advocating owners, and ultimately a smaller, cleaner standard library (but that's a different PEP) > I realize we can't have a maintainer for every module, but we should be glad > about every one that does. Except those owners who are perma-afk. That's bad. Just as bad as having none at all. > So, bottom line: We love you, Jesse, and we need more of you! Yeah, well - I don't know about that ;) jesse _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
