[Python-ideas] "else if" as equivalent for "elif"

[Paul Moore]

On 24 October 2015 at 09:39, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de> wrote:
> 2) Is Python not an open-source project? Could not anybody contribute? To me
> that means, the sky is the limit.

The problem is that many people contribute ideas (hence this list) but
only a few contribute code, and even fewer contribute the commitment
to maintain that code long-term.

One of the roles needed on this list is for people to say that the
*current* developers (i.e, those contributing code and maintenance)
are unlikely to spend their time implementing and maintaining an idea
proposed here. That doesn't mean the idea is rejected out of hand, it
just means that to progress the idea the person proposing it is likely
to have to go further, and offer code, and potentially ongoing
maintenance if it's a change that can't be covered by "normal"
maintenance (e.g., a inclusion of a new or specialist library).

So ideas are welcome, but they need to be backed by an implementation,
and "I'm not interested in implementing this idea for you" is an
entirely legitimate (and not uncommon) response that people need to be
prepared to accept.

Paul