[python-committers] Commit privileges for Roger Serwy for IDLE

[Victor Stinner]

It's maybe not the right place to discuss that, but why is IDLE part
of the Python stdlib? Can't we maintain IDLE outside Python? I guess
that maintaining it outside the stdlib would allow to develop it
faster and be able to upgrade it for old (unmaintained) Python
versions.

Packaging Python with IDLE is stil a good idea, especially on Windows
where there is no good text editor by default.

Victor

2013/3/19 Ned Deily <nad at acm.org>:
> I would like to propose Roger Serwy be given commit privileges to work
> on IDLE.  Roger has demonstrated long-term interest in IDLE and has been
> contributing to IDLE in a number of ways for years.  He has submitted
> many patches for IDLE to the tracker since at least April 2008.  He has
> developed a number of IDLE extensions (http://idlex.sourceforge.net),
> some of which he has proposed for inclusion in the standard library.  He
> is also active in triaging and commenting on the bug tracker and has had
> developer privileges on the tracker for the past 12 months.  He has also
> already signed the contributor agreement and I know he has been
> interested in becoming a core developer for IDLE.  I've informally
> discussed this with a few other core developers here at PyCon and I
> think there is general agreement that having Roger be able to contribute
> more directly to IDLE would be a really good thing.  I would certainly
> be willing to help mentor him as necessary.
>
> --
>  Ned Deily,
>  nad at acm.org
>
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