[docs] [issue16574] clarify policy on updates to final peps

[Chris Jerdonek]

New submission from Chris Jerdonek:

This issue is to clarify the policy in PEP 1 regarding non-substantive changes to PEPs in the Final state (minor clarifications, rephrasings, etc).

Currently, PEP 1 says, "In general, Standards track PEPs are no longer modified after they have reached the Final state."

(from http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0001/#pep-maintenance )

However, others have pointed out that minor clarifications and rephrasings are in fact allowed:

http://bugs.python.org/issue15990#msg176575

The updated wording should also state the policy or process regarding such changes (who is allowed to make them and whether and from whom approval is needed to make such changes, etc).

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 176598
nosy: barry, chris.jerdonek, docs at python, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, goodger, ncoghlan
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: clarify policy on updates to final peps
type: enhancement

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