[Python-Dev] folding cElementTree behind ElementTree in 3.3

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 11:11:07 +0000
Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 February 2012 09:49, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I concur. It's important that we consider Fredrik's ownership of the
> >> modules, but if he fails to reply to email and doesn't update his
> >> repositories, there should be enough cause for python-dev to go on and
> >> appropriate the stdlib versions of those modules.
> >
> > +1.
> >
> > That said, I think that the particular change discussed in this thread
> > can be made anyway, since it doesn't really modify ET's APIs or
> > functionality, just the way it gets imported from stdlib.
> 
> I would suggest that, assuming python-dev want to take ownership of
> the module, one last-ditch attempt be made to contact Fredrik. We
> should email him, and copy python-dev (and maybe even python-list)
> asking for his view, and ideally his blessing on the stdlib version
> being forked and maintained independently going forward. Put a time
> limit on responses ("if we don't hear by XXX, we'll assume Fredrik is
> either uncontactable or not interested, and therefore we can go ahead
> with maintaining the stdlib version independently").
> 
> It's important to respect Fredrik's wishes and ownership, but we can't
> leave part of the stdlib frozen and abandoned just because he's not
> available any longer.

It's not frozen, it's actually maintained.

Regards

Antoine.