[Python-checkins] r72563 - peps/trunk/pep-0374.txt

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Dirkjan, I appreciate the desire to go forward with the transition, and I
> applaud your initiative, but this is not the way to do it.  A new PEP is
> appropriate here.  Please revert revision 72563 and create a new PEP.

I disagree that this should be done.

> There are three warning bells ringing loudly here:
> 
> 1. The PEP title was changed.

The title, but not the spirit. The title is just more precise than it
was before?

> 2. The authors were changed.  This is, IMO, incredibly rude.

Why is it rude? The original author agreed to that change.
There have been changes to the list of authors in other PEPs before,
and nobody complained.

> 3. Huge swaths of the existing PEP were ripped out.  Effectively a complete
> rewrite.  This feels like revising history.

It was only done to improve the PEP.

> The great value of
> PEP 374 going forward is as a historical document.

To have that value, it doesn't have to be in the PEP. Indeed, I think it
has more value where it is now.

> I have not been active in PEP editing lately, so I won't impose my opinion
> unilaterally.  PEP editors, what do you think?

I don't think there are any PEP editors left :-(

Regards,
Martin