[Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

[R. David Murray]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:13:21 +0100, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 11/07/2010 19:40, "Martin v. L=F6wis" wrote:
> >>> There clearly are *some* folks who care enough about IDLE to submit
> >>> bug reports and fixes. How about we empower these people by giving at
> >>> least one of them commit privileges? IDLE development has often been
> >>> done by people who aren't otherwise contributing to the core, and we
> >>> surely should trust those folks with commit privileges.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Can I take a really big liberty and volunteer Terry Reedy for the job.
> >
> > It doesn't work that way. You can't volunteer somebody else (*).
> >
> > If Terry would volunteer himself, he'd get commit access in no time.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Martin
> >
> > (*) so when you assign bugs to me, it probably means that they get less
> > attention, not more.
> 
> Martin,
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> IIRC Terry Reedy has already volunteered to do this, if I'm incorrect
> I'll apologise right now to both of you.
>
> As for assigning bugs, I've been told to use the maintainer.rst list, so
> either the list is wrong, or I've had finger problems.  If it's the
> latter I again say sorry.

I suggested you use maintainers.rst to find people to add to the nosy
list, not to assign bugs to.  But I can understand your confusion about
that, given the name of the file, and the lack of complete process
documentation.

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R. David Murray                                      www.bitdance.com