[Python-Dev] public visibility of python-dev decisions "before it's too late" (was: PyCObject_AsVoidPtr removed from python 3.2 - is this documented?)

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:56:49 +0100
Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:53:03 -0500
> Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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> > On 03/11/2011 03:24 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> > > On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:15:07 +0100
> > > Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Actually, why not put up a web page of "upcoming changes" somewhere, that 
> > >> lists major decisions with user impact that were taken on python-dev? 
> > >> Including a link to the relevant discussion and decision. Often enough, 
> > >> decisions are taken inside of huge mailing list threads that get off-topic 
> > >> before someone has "the right idea" and everyone who's still there to 
> > >> listen agrees. Even for people lurking around on python-dev, it's easy 
> > >> enough to miss these moments.
> > > 
> > > A better alternative IMHO would be to revive the community buildbots
> > > (pybots.org), under the same form or another.
> > 
> > How would more buildbots help the visibility of changes being landed to
> > the language or standard library?
> 
> They would help check that changes don't cause regressions in major
> third-party packages such as CPython.

Sorry, I meant Cython, not CPython...

Antoine.