[stdlib-sig] Breaking out the stdlib

[Jesse Noller]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Le lundi 14 septembre 2009 à 11:46 -0400, Jesse Noller a écrit :
>> Then Fredrik is no longer the maintainer - I'm looking at this through
>> rather harsh eyes, true, but my goal is progress and quality - not
>> being nice, so I'm sorry if I'm overly harsh.
>
> I can agree with that, but it may imply some social / relational
> problems if there isn't some formal (or widely agreed upon) process to
> transfer ownership of a neglected module.

Agreed.

>> And externally maintained modules are an oxymoron, no? :)
>
> Perhaps, but they exist (e.g. simplejson).
>

That one seems like an odd exception to the rule. I don't know how
that one evolved.