On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 12:05 PM David Mertz <mertz@gnosis.cx> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 10:25 AM Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@redhat.com> wrote:
Does it really matter that much in regards to the specific context? If someone poses problematic behavior (as it seems, as I'm not familiar with any specifics here), maintenance of a module should be the last of the worries. There are many pieces in the stdlib which remain or have remained unmaintained for years. Maybe someone could pick up the pace, maybe not.

I agree with Charalampos here.  I am NOT opining on any specifics of problematic behavior or the SCs actions.

But many module contributors or maintainers become unavailable for many different reasons.  We cannot, and should not, rest these broader collaboration decisions on some specific expertise, which we cannot guarantee will remain regardless of SC actions.  If needed, hopefully someone else can pick up _decimal.  But the same principle applies to any module mostly maintained by anyone else who has contributed.  Things happen in people's life, quite independent of CoC issues.

This is also why the SC has emphasized multiple times that no one "owns" anything in CPython. We obviously have experts, but spreading knowledge is an important part to maintaining a large, open source project like this. If that hasn't happened for _decimal then that's something to fix.

And to put a very fine point on it: we literally had a primary maintainer of a module die, so there is absolutely zero guarantee that someone will ever come back to contribute past their last contribution.

-Brett
 

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