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

[Barry Warsaw]

On May 15, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>> 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.

I wasn't asked.  I'm inconsolably offended.

(joking in case that wasn't clear! :)

>> 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 PEP 374 going forward is as a historical document.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 disagree.  I think the contents of the PEP as it was makes an  
excellent historical record of our evaluation, now likely googlable  
everywhere.  While /I/ might quibble with the outcome <wink>, I think  
it's useful to have that evaluation not stashed in caches, but right  
there in the document.

>> 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 :-(

Maybe it's time to put out a call for volunteers?  New blood is always  
welcome.

-Barry

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