[Python-3000] bsddb ownership, buffer protocol and 3.0

Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Sat Jul 19 21:08:49 CEST 2008


From: "Brett Cannon" <brett at python.org>
> I appreciate you want to maintain the code, Jesus, but that still
> makes you the single point of failure for the code. If you decide you
> don't want to deal with it, or are on vacation when the code breaks
> just before a release, it is quite possible we are screwed.

FWIW, I think its fine to have a single dedicated maintainer.
We've had that for a number of contributed modules and
it mostly works out fine (though it's always better to have
more than one).

I applaud Jesus's volunteer effort.


Raymond



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