[stdlib-sig] Breaking out the stdlib

[Georg Brandl]

Michael Foord schrieb:
> Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> Le mardi 15 septembre 2009 à 17:14 -0400, R. David Murray a écrit :
>>   
>>> Actually I believe I heard from someone other than Laura that required
>>> options were explicitly rejected.
>>>     
>>
>> This is one of the reasons why I'm against exclusive module ownership.
>> If a reasonable number of people think a feature would benefit the
>> community, the module owner shouldn't be able to veto it on ideological
>> (or whatever other personal) grounds.
>>
>>   
> 
> I dislike exclusive module ownership too. We end up in situations where 
> modules (like ElementTree) are 'owned' by someone who is absent and 
> no-one else is able to (or dares to) touch the code.

Well, one part of module ownership would be to complain about and/or
revert unwanted changes.  Which one obviously cannot do when absent
or inactive :)

Georg

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