[Python-Dev] Proposed BDFL Delegate update for PEPs 538 & 540 (assuming UTF-8 for *nix system boundaries)

[Guido van Rossum]

+1. I have full confidence that Inada-san will be a trustworthy delegate
for these PEPs.

--Guido

On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 9:00 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks (mainly Guido),
>
> Due to constraints on his available time, Barry has decided to step
> down as BDFL-Delegate for PEP 538 (my proposal to default to coercing
> the legacy C locale to newer UTF-8 based locales when the latter are
> available).
>
> After discussion with Barry and Inada-san, Victor and I are now
> proposing to invite Naoki Inada to take on the task of being
> BDFL-Delegate for both PEP 538 and Victor's related PEP 540, with the
> following rationale:
>
> - the two PEPs are sufficiently closely related that Barry, Victor and
> I think the same person should be the final decision maker for both of
> them
> - with the initial delegation of PEP 538 to Barry, Guido indicated
> he'd prefer to delegate the task rather than having to come fully up
> to speed on the vagaries of modern *nix locale handling and the
> current state of the affected system boundaries in CPython
> - Inada-san has already been active in reviewing and commenting on
> both proposals
> - being based in Japan and working with Japanese text and interfaces,
> Inada-san regularly encounters the developer experience problems that
> these proposals are intended to help address
>
> Assuming Guido's OK with that proposed delegation, I'll update the
> headers on both PEPs accordingly.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
> --
> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
> _______________________________________________
> Python-Dev mailing list
> Python-Dev at python.org
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev
> Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/
> guido%40python.org
>



-- 
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20170423/eab128cf/attachment.html>