[Python-Dev] IDLE in the stdlib

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mar 20, 2013, at 11:11 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

>On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:05:40 -0700
>Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, the status quo of Idle is not something we should allow to
>> continue indefinitely, but decisions about its future development
>> should be made by active maintainers that are already trusted to make
>> changes to it (such as Terry and Roger), rather than those of us that
>> don't use it, and aren't interested in maintaining it.
>
>Definitely. People shouldn't remain quiescently torpid about the idle
>status quo.

The release managers should have a say in the matter, since it does cause some
amount of pain there.

-Barry