[Python-Dev] On the necessity of PEPs [was "collections.sortedtree"]

[Nick Coghlan]

On 28 March 2014 21:12, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 20:32:02 +1000
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Most of the time when I hear people say "the PEP process is too
>> difficult", I eventually find that what they really mean is "learning
>> the kinds of things that python-dev are likely to be worried about,
>> and ensuring that the PEP adequately addresses their concerns, and
>> listening to feedback, and reconsidering what I actually want, and
>> revising my proposal, such that they eventually say yes is too time
>> consuming".
>
> Well, the PEP process *is* difficult and not only because you have to
> learn the kinds of things that python-dev are likely to be worried
> about. Getting a PEP accepted for a feature is much more work than
> getting a feature accepted in the bug tracker.

Oh, agreed. It's only the "too" qualifier that I question - I'm not
sure how much easier we could make it before it ceased to serve its
filtering purpose.

Cheers,
Nick.

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