<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'><br><div class="zmail_extra"><div id="1"><br>---- Ein Sa, 18 Jul 2015 04:34:19 +0000 <b>Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org></b> hat geschrieben ---- <br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #0000FF;padding-left: 6px; margin: 0 0 0 5px">Antoine Pitrou writes: <br> > [...] is amongst the reasons why I'm stopping contributing to <br> > CPython. <br> <br>> We'll miss your code. But you're only one committer, even if you've <br>> contributed more than the average amount. On the other hand, Python <br>> needs to *grow* the committer group beyond its current size, and <br>> *some* such discussion is necessary for new committers' advancement to <br>> "benevolent dictator for one PEP" level, which is also a pain point <br>> IMHO.<br><br>I don't think growing committer numbers is CPython's #1 problem. CPython<br>needs *relevant*contributions: Hypothetically speaking, I'd wager that<br>someone writing an industrial strength concurrent garbage collector is<br>*far more likely* to share Antoine's attitude.<br><br>ALL developer's who fall into that category are being put off by the<br>current climate on python-dev and python-ideas, and there's no<br>shortage of other languages to contribute to.<br><br>Likewise, I don't think PEPs are the problem either: Python already has<br>too many features (recently I found myself thinking that C++ is a really<br>nice small language :).<br><br><br>Stefan Krah<br></blockquote></div></div></body></html>