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

[Jesse Noller]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 (some of these info are a bit outdated though)

Oh man, those are dated. json isn't even in there.