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

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:38 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
> It has been mentioned here that some bugs languish in the tracker because
> there is no one willing to say "yes" or "no" to them.  In at least some
> cases this may be because it is unclear who the best person is to ask
> for a decision when the participants in the issue don't feel qualified
> to decide.  And in some cases, some of the people it may be unclear to
> may be the very people who _could_ decide...if only they knew that they
> were the closest thing to an expert on that module that we have.
>
> In a discussion on IRC we came up with a proposal for a simple tool that
> might help out in this situation.  I would like to propose that we create
> a file, tentatively named MISC/maintainers.txt, that contains two tables:
> (1) a table of all the modules in the standard library and (2) a table of
> 'areas of expertise' (things like Unicode, arithmetic, etc).  Table (2)
> would be the simpler, and would just list people who felt they had
> enough expertise in the given area to be willing to make judgement
> calls on relevant issues on request.

That would be a third source of info about who maintains what.

If this file is created it should maybe override and cover what PEP
360 and PEP 291 provides

- some modules/packages backward compatibility infos
- a list of externally maintained packages

(some of these info are a bit outdated though)

Regards
Tarek