On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Armin Ronacher <armin.ronac...@active-4.com> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm known for my dislike of the standard libray. In the past I wrote > some blog posts about this topic into my personal blog already. However > as many people pointed out earlier, a blog is not the place for this > kind of criticism. Not only that, also just ranting about a topic does > not help at all. Yesterday I subscribed to the stdlib-sig and > immediately tons of mails ended up in my inbox. A quick look at the > mail archives confirms what I was afraid of: this list is really high > traffic. I tried to read up some of the discussions I missed but it's > nearly impossible to do that.
I think that's out of the norm... the list has been quiet until recently. :-) [snip] > Any maybe we should have some elected task forces for things like the > standard library. Judging from the mailinglist it appears that far too > many people are discussing *every detail* of it. It is a good idea to > ask as many people as possible, but I am not sure if the mailinglist is > the way to do that. It is currently very hard to see the direction in > which development is heading. > > > Please think of this email just as a suggestion. I don't have too much > trust into myself to follow the discussions on this list camely enough > to become a real part of a solution, but I would love to help shifting > the development into a better direction, no matter which one it will be. Just a thought: PyCon 2010 is around the corner. Open space? Something more formalized? Is that too late (because we will have lost momentum)? -John _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
