[Python-Dev] PEP 345 and PEP 386

[Guido van Rossum]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> [..]
>> I have one comment on PEP 345: Why is author-email mandatory? I'm sure
>> there are plenty of cases where either the author doesn't want their
>> email address published, or their last know email address is no longer
>> valid. (Tarek responded off-line that it isn't all that mandatory; I
>> propose to say so in the PEP.)
>
> Yes, I propose to remove the mandatory flag from that field.

Since this is done I now approve both PEP 345 and PEP 386 (which is
not to say that small editorial changes to the text couldn't be made).

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)