[python-committers] Why?

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:41 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>>> On 2008-07-30 14:54, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>> Sorry if this is a naive question, but I was just wondering what the
>>>> purpose of this mailing list would be. I don't think there are often
>>>> python related topics that are only applicable to committers. What
>>>> sort of things will we discuss here?
>>>
>>> I suppose the list would be useful for notices related to
>>> a frozen trunk or other admin notices. Filtering those from
>>> python-dev is not very reliable.
>>>
>>
>> MAL hit it right on the head. Guido's idea was to have a list where
>> you should not have to mentally filter out threads because it has
>> deteriorated into some competition over what color to paint the
>> bikeshed (see the whole unittest method name fiasco for a good
>> example). Because we all ignore various threads on python-dev there is
>> a chance that something important might get missed. This lowers that
>> chance by making sure this list is low-volume and high-quality in
>> terms of what all committers need to be aware of.
>>
>> -Brett
>
> This might also be a good place to request code-reviews for sensitive commits
>

[re-sending; mouse didn't make it all the way over to "reply to all"
the first time]

Possibly, although the archive is public, so this is not exactly
secretive. But yes, if you have some code that needs a committer's
review (which is practically anything that isn't trivial at this
point), this list is probably a good place to make the request.

-Brett