[stdlib-sig] Breaking out the stdlib

[Jesse Noller]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> Both in reputation and in developer time. It doesn't help our image
> when someone finds a module in our standard library that is
> practically unmaintained and goes w/o having patches applied. I think
> this is Jesse's motivation behind wanting owners of modules; since the
> core devs are volunteers we only patch stuff we care about, which
> leads to orphaned modules rotting in the stdlib. And tying into this,
> having to patch and fix modules that are outdated and not widely used
> is a waste of time when it could have been spent working on code that
> is more impactful on the wider community.

Brett is correct in my pain/motivation.