[Eric S. Raymond]
May I have developer status on the SourceForge CVS, please? I maintain two standard-library modules (shlex and netrc) and have been involved with the development of several others (including Cmd, smtp, httplib, and multifile).
My only immediate plan for what to do with developer access is to add the browser-launch capability previously discussed on this list. My general interest is in improving the standard class library, especially in the areas of Internet-protocol support (urllib, ftp, telnet, pop, imap, smtp, nntplib, etc.) and mini-language toolkits and frameworks (shlex. netrc, Cmd, ConfigParser).
If the Internet-protocol support in the library were broken out as a development category, I would be willing to fill the patch-handler slot for it.
Eric, I just added you -- go nuts! Don't forget your docstrings, and try hard not to add new modules Guido will hate <0.9 wink -- but new modules do merit python-dev discussion first>. Ah, one more: the layout of the "Edit Member Permissions" admin page on SF is completely screwed up for me, so you got whatever the default permissions are. This looked fine to me a few days ago, but we've added several members since then. Would one of the admins using Netscape please check that page for sane display? I can't yet tell whether it's an IE5 or SF problem.