[Python-Dev] public visibility of python-dev decisions "before it's too late"

[Nick Coghlan]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:20 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> I still consider this is mostly a communication issue. If this change had
> been properly written up, preferably in a PEP, including the reasoning for
> it to get done, I think this whole discussion would not have been necessary.

Yes, I think we need to keep "topic of wider interest" in mind when
deciding whether or not to write up a PEP, even if the change isn't
particularly controversial amongst the core developers. We made a
similar mistake with the zipfile and directory execution changes.

Cheers,
Nick.

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