[Python-Dev] Python 1.6 timing

[Ken Manheimer]

I must have missed the historic landmark where "pumpkin" was coined, but i
think i get the gist.  How about "Python Marshall" or "Python Activity
Marshall" (a la the PS_A_)?

Ken

David Ascher wrote:

> [...]
> Regardless, just like Greg, I'd like to know what a pumpkin-holder would
> mean in the Python world.
> 
> I propose that it be called the Oracle instead.  As in, whoever is Oracle
> would get some training with Tim Peters and learn how to channel G__do.  As
> a Python user, I'd be most comfortable with such a change if the Oracle just
> took over the technical stuff (reviewing patches, CVS checkins, running
> tests, corralling help for doc & code, maintaining release notes, building
> installers, etc.), but that the important decisions (e.g. whether to add a
> feature to the core language) would be checked with G__do first.  We could
> call the position "Administrative Assistant", but somehow that doesn't have
> the prestige.
> 
> A progressive schedule where Guido watches over the Oracle periodically
> would probably help build trust in the new mechanism.  The Oracle would be
> expected to ask Guido for his opinion with everything at the beginning, and
> as a trust builds between Guido and the Oracle and the community and the
> mechanism, progressively less.