Someone asked me off-line what I wanted besides talk. Here's the list I came up with: You could try for instance volunteer to do a thorough code review of the regex code, trying to think of ways to break it (e.g. bad syntax or extreme use of nesting etc., or bad data). Or you could volunteer to maintain it in the future. Or you could try to port it to PEP 393. Or you could systematically go over the given list of differences between re and regex and decide whether they are likely to be backwards incompatibilities that will break existing code. Or you could try to add some of the functionality requested by Tom C in one of his several bugs. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)