[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/nondist/peps pep-0000.txt,1.24,1.25

[Thomas Wouters]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:29:27PM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

> I don't know why I haven't seen Thomas's reply yet, but in any event...

Strange, it went to python-dev not long after the checkin. Tim quoted about
the entire email, though, so you didn't miss much. The name-calling and
snide remarks weren't important anyway :)

> I'm not sure what it should mean either, except as a shorthand way to
> identify the owner of the PEP.  Most important is that each line fit
> in 80 columns!

> I had originally thought the owner should be the mailbox on
> SourceForge, but then I thought maybe it ought to be the mailbox given
> in the Author: field of the PEP.

Emails in the Author field are likely to be too long to fit in that list,
even if you remove the filename. I'd say go for the SF username, for five
reasons:

  1) it's a name developers know and love (or hate)
  2) more information on a user can be found through SourceForge
  5) that SF email address should work, too. It's where patch updates and
     stuff are sent, so most people are likely to have it forwarding to
     their PEP author address.

Also, it's the way of least resistance. All you need to change is that
'tpeters' into 'tim_one' :-)
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