[stdlib-sig] MISC/maintainers.txt anyone?

[Benjamin Peterson]

2009/9/15 Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:38 PM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
> Hmm, tables in a text file? I can see it, it's just always wacky.

emacs table mode!

>
> +1
>
>> Table (1) would list, I propose, three categories of people:
>> (a) 'official maintainer(s)', (b) experts, and (c) contributors.
>> An 'official maintainer' would be someone willing to take more-or-less
>> full responsibility for a module (such as Jesse for Multiprocessing).
>> Experts would be people who feel they have a good working knowledge of
>> the module and would not be afraid to sign off on the advisability and
>> quality of a feature/bug fix when there is a question.  Contributors would
>> be anyone else with a more than casual knowledge of the module, but who
>> aren't comfortable with signing off on the advisability of non-trivial
>> patches/feature requests.  My rational for including the third category is
>> to have a pool of people who can self-promote as needed.  These people
>> can decide that it is OK to make the decision once they see that
>> there is no one willing to declare themselves an expert in that module.
>> I unfortunately expect a non-trivial number of modules to fall into
>> this category.
>
> +1, provided we can get good information into this, this could help
> out a lot. Can I ask that instead of just a misc file, we put this in
> the official documentation, in ReST format? I'd like to be able to
> point to all official-like.

Why? It's not meant to be all official-like, just to help people
triaging bugs or having questions about the code. I don't see how it
would benefit the person trying to find out how to use module X in the
official docs.



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Regards,
Benjamin