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

[Jesse Noller]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> Le mardi 15 septembre 2009 à 18:38 -0400, R. David Murray a écrit :
>>
>> Table (1) would list, I propose, three categories of people:
>> (a) 'official maintainer(s)', (b) experts, and (c) contributors.
>
> This is too complicated IMO.
> (a) + (b) is very sufficient and perhaps still not simple enough.
> I don't see any strong difference between maintainers and experts.
> As for casual contributors, I don't see any point in an exhaustive
> listing of them (which, depending on the module, may be very long and
> tedious and maintain).

but hey, if they're willing to write out all that info antoine ;)

I think Antoine has a good point here. Can we start shorter (and simpler)?

>> An 'official maintainer' would be someone willing to take more-or-less
>> full responsibility for a module (such as Jesse for Multiprocessing).
>
> I don't think "full responsibility" is a good thing. See my other
> message (at 00:52 CEST) for why I think so.

Let's just stick to "tinpot maintainer" ;)

jesse