[Python-ideas] OT: external maintenance

[Georg Brandl]

Antoine Pitrou schrieb:
> Guido van Rossum <guido at ...> writes:
>> 
>> But the merges into the core will be tough. Imagine submitting a
>> 5000-line patch and saying "I've worked on this for a year, please
>> adopt it." Will we do enough code review to assert the code quality?
> 
> Pardon for hijacking the moratorium discussion, but this is the kind of problem
> we already have with externally-maintained modules (such as json). The way they
> are updated is that once in a while (once a year perhaps), their author comes
> with a huge patch that we should ideally review, except that it's very difficult
> to do so -- especially given that it's about a piece of code that we don't know
> well in the first place.

But we haven't really put a review policy into place for core commits, and
since the authors of those packages all (?) are core devs, we trust them
enough to commit to the core.  It's different with DVCS branches created
by "only" community members.

>> PS. My elbow needs a couple more weeks of rest. Limiting myself to
>> ultra-short emails.
> 
> I hope you'll get better soon!

+1.

Georg

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