PEP status and python-dev summaries

[Andrew Cooke]

I've read somewhere in all this that the original intent was to avoid
this - IIRC to avoid too much pointless discussion.  As Python gets more
popular the S/N in the ng is decreasing and I can see the point.  The
important thing to realise is that this isn't meant (presumably) to
exclude the people posting to this thread; more to avoid a million
people endlessly debating each piece of syntax (eg += or list
comprehensions).

Some kind of hierarchy needn't be a bad thing - to some extent this is
the price you're paying for Python's exponential (ish) growth...

All IMHO - I'm not involved in Python, just curious about how this
problem is going to be handled.  How is it handled in Perl?  Is there a
Python equivalent of the porters, for example?

Good luck!
Andrew

Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> 
> Jeremy Hylton <jeremy at alum.mit.edu> writes:
> > - Regular announcements of PEP creation and PEP status changes should
> >   be posted to comp.lang.python and c.l.p.a.
> 
> Should the full text of PEPs be posted at some point?  Perhaps the
> first draft, and significant revisions, should be posted so that
> people can follow-up directly to the PEP.  "Significant" will be left
> up to the PEP author; you wouldn't repost after every typo or minor
> clarification, but if your first approach was completely bogus, you'd
> post the massively revised version.
> 
> --amk