2009/9/15 Jesse Noller <jnol...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:38 PM, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> > wrote: > Hmm, tables in a text file? I can see it, it's just always wacky.
emacs table mode! > > +1 > >> Table (1) would list, I propose, three categories of people: >> (a) 'official maintainer(s)', (b) experts, and (c) contributors. >> An 'official maintainer' would be someone willing to take more-or-less >> full responsibility for a module (such as Jesse for Multiprocessing). >> Experts would be people who feel they have a good working knowledge of >> the module and would not be afraid to sign off on the advisability and >> quality of a feature/bug fix when there is a question. Contributors would >> be anyone else with a more than casual knowledge of the module, but who >> aren't comfortable with signing off on the advisability of non-trivial >> patches/feature requests. My rational for including the third category is >> to have a pool of people who can self-promote as needed. These people >> can decide that it is OK to make the decision once they see that >> there is no one willing to declare themselves an expert in that module. >> I unfortunately expect a non-trivial number of modules to fall into >> this category. > > +1, provided we can get good information into this, this could help > out a lot. Can I ask that instead of just a misc file, we put this in > the official documentation, in ReST format? I'd like to be able to > point to all official-like. Why? It's not meant to be all official-like, just to help people triaging bugs or having questions about the code. I don't see how it would benefit the person trying to find out how to use module X in the official docs. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
