[Python-Dev] ElementTree - Why not part of the core? (fwd)

[Barry Warsaw]

On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 15:12 -0800, Brett Cannon wrote:

> I remember Barry saying he wanted to start a branch for work on the
> next version of the 'email' package.  And it is possible more and more
> modules developed externally will begin to be included in the stdlib. 
> Perhaps PEP 2 should be updated with basic guidelines we plan to stick
> to
> for modules that are externally developed and occasionally synched
> with the core.  Basically I think specifying who the code comes from,
> having auto-assignment for bug reports in the tracker, and saying that
> no updates to the snapshot except for bug fixes once alpha is released
> should be enough.  I would assume the snapshot in svn would just be a
> direct copy to the core and not require running any special script or
> something to generate anything.  If we do go that way, then mentioning
> that in the PEP wouldn't hurt either.

Which reminds me.  I think it may make sense to offer svn.python.org to
other contrib projects that may or are included in the stdlib.

-Barry

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