[Python-Dev] Misc/maintainers.rst

Thu Sep 17 19:57:55 CEST 2009

Looks great to me! Only thing missing that I can think of is sticking
Eric down as the guy who does str.format(). =)

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:14, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
> I floated a proposal on stdlib-sig to create a file named
> Misc/maintainers.rst.  The purpose of this file is to collect knowledge
> about who knows which modules well enough to make decision about issues
> in the tracker when the participants in the issue aren't sure, and to
> write down the community knowledge about who has special interest and
> expertise in specific topic areas.
>
> This proposal was met with approval and, after a couple of small
> modifications of the proposal, no dissent; so I've created the skeleton
> of the file.  I've filled in some of the blanks where I had personal
> knowledge, was told info on IRC, from the two referenced PEPs, and
> from PEP 11.
>
> Feel free to respond with comments about the header text, but more
> importantly let me know what you know about who (especially if it is you)
> should be listed for each module, platform, and topic, and feel free to
> suggest additional topics.  My goal is to record the community knowledge.
>
> Another topic of discussion that is orthogonal to filling in the table is
> whether or not to publish it outside the repository.  Jesse would like to
> see it included in the Python Documentation, and Georg has suggested the
> possibility of creating a separate, sphinx-based, automatically-uploaded
> document collection in the repository to contain this and related
> information (Misc/devdocs?).
>
> The module list was built from the py3k documentation module index, with
> the addition of 'pybench' from PEP 291.  If there are other modules/tools
> that are missing, or submodules that should be broken out into
> separate lines, please let me know.
>
> After the initial flurry of updates and comments dies down I will check
> this in.
>
> --David
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Maintainers Index
> =================
>
> This document cross references Python Modules (first table) and platforms
> (second table) with the Tracker user names of people who are experts
> and/or resources for that module or platform.  This list is intended
> to be used by issue submitters, issue triage people, and other issue
> participants to find people to add to the nosy list or to contact
> directly by email for help and decisions on feature requests and bug
> fixes.  People on this list may be asked to render final judgement on a
> feature or bug.  If no active maintainer is listed for a given module,
> then questionable changes should go to python-dev, while any other issues
> can and should be decided by any committer.
>
> The last part of this document is a third table, listing broader topic
> areas in which various people have expertise.  These people can also
> be contacted for help, opinions, and decisions when issues involve
> their areas.
>
> If a listed maintainer does not respond to requests for comment for an
> extended period (three weeks or more), they should be marked as inactive
> in this list by placing the word 'inactive' in parenthesis behind their
> tracker id.  They are of course free to remove that inactive mark at
> any time.
>
> Committers should update this table as their areas of expertise widen.
> New topics may be added to the third table at will.
>
> The existence of this list is not meant to indicate that these people
> *must* be contacted for decisions; it is, rather, a resource to be used
> by non-committers to find responsible parties, and by committers who do
> not feel qualified to make a decision in a particular context.
>
> See also `PEP 291`_ and `PEP 360`_ for information about certain modules
> with special rules.
>
> .. _`PEP 291`: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0291/
> .. _`PEP 360`: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0360/
>
>
> ==================  ===========
> Module              Maintainers
> ==================  ===========
> __future__
> __main__            gvanrossum
> _dummy_thread       brett.cannon
> _thread
> abc
> aifc                r.david.murray
> array
> ast
> asynchat            josiahcarlson
> asyncore            josiahcarlson
> atexit
> audioop
> base64
> bdb
> binascii
> binhex
> bisect
> builtins
> bz2
> calendar
> cgi
> cgitb
> chunk
> cmath
> cmd
> code
> codecs
> codeop
> collections
> colorsys
> compileall
> configparser
> contextlib
> copy
> copyreg
> cProfile
> crypt
> csv
> ctypes              theller
> curses
> datetime
> dbm
> decimal
> difflib
> dis
> distutils           tarek
> doctest
> dummy_threading     brett.cannon
> email               barry
> encodings
> errno
> exceptions
> fcntl
> filecmp
> fileinput
> fnmatch
> formatter
> fpectl
> fractions
> ftplib
> functools
> gc
> getopt
> getpass
> gettext
> glob
> grp
> gzip
> hashlib
> heapq
> hmac
> html
> http
> imaplib
> imghdr
> imp
> importlib           brett.cannon
> inspect
> io                  pitrou, benjamin.peterson
> itertools
> json
> keyword
> lib2to3             benjamin.peterson
> linecache
> locale
> logging             vsajip
> macpath
> mailbox
> mailcap
> marshal
> math
> mimetypes
> mmap
> modulefinder        theller, jvr
> msilib
> msvcrt
> multiprocessing     jnoller
> netrc
> nis
> nntplib
> numbers
> operator
> optparse            aronacher
> os
> ossaudiodev
> parser
> pdb
> pickle
> pickletools
> pipes
> pkgutil
> platform            lemburg
> plistlib
> poplib
> posix
> pprint
> pstats
> pty
> pwd
> py_compile
> pybench             lemburg
> pyclbr
> pydoc
> queue
> quopri
> random
> re
> readline
> reprlib
> resource
> rlcompleter
> runpy
> sched
> select
> shelve
> shlex
> shutil
> signal
> site
> smtpd
> smtplib
> sndhdr
> socket
> socketserver
> spwd
> sqlite3
> ssl
> stat
> string
> stringprep
> struct
> subprocess          astrand (inactive)
> sunau
> symbol
> symtable
> sys
> syslog
> tabnanny
> tarfile
> telnetlib
> tempfile
> termios
> test
> textwrap
> threading
> time
> timeit
> tkinter             gpolo
> token
> tokenize
> trace
> traceback
> tty
> turtle              gregorlingl
> types
> unicodedata
> unittest            michael.foord
> urllib
> uu
> uuid
> warnings
> wave
> weakref
> webbrowser          georg.brandl
> winreg
> winsound
> wsgiref             pje
> xdrlib
> xml                 loewis
> xml.etree           effbot (inactive)
> xmlrpc              loewis
> zipfile
> zipimport
> zlib
> ==================  ===========
>
>
> ==================  ===========
> Platform            Maintainer
> ------------------  -----------
> AIX
> Cygwin              jlt63
> FreeBSD
> Linux
> Mac                 ronaldoussoren
> NetBSD1
> OS2/EMX             aimacintyre
> Solaris
> HP-UX
> ==================  ===========
>
>
> ==================  ===========
> Interest Area       Maintainers
> ------------------  -----------
> algorithms
> ast/compiler
> autoconf
> bsd
> buildbots
> data formats
> database
> documentation       georg.brandl
> GUI
> i18n
> import machinery    brett.cannon
> io                  pitrou, benjamin.peterson
> locale
> makefiles
> mathematics         marketdickinson, eric.smith
> memory management
> networking
> packaging release management
> time and dates
> testing             michael.foord
> threads
> unicode windows
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