[Python-Dev] PEP 318, and the PEP process

[Skip Montanaro]

    Anthony> Which brings up another related point: Many PEPs contain "open
    Anthony> issues" and the like, that are never ever backfilled. Largely
    Anthony> this is a matter of round tuits - the PEP authors are generally
    Anthony> drawn from a very small group of developers. How can we
    Anthony> encourage other people to contribute to this? The obvious way
    Anthony> (to me) is some form of Wiki annotation. I don't think we want
    Anthony> to make the Wiki the primary copy of the document, but I think
    Anthony> having the PEPs annotatable would be a win.

For topics where a lot of user input is anticipated (or discovered) such as
for PEP 318, perhaps the initial round of the PEP should be a (set of) Wiki
page(s).  As the concepts it contains firm up a more static document can be
drawn up from that.

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