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

[R. David Murray]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 at 19:02, Jesse Noller wrote:
> 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)?

OK, less work is fine by me.

So instead of a full blown table, we have a file with two sections, and
in each section we have a keyword (module name in the first section,
expertise area in the second) followed by a list of tracker ids for
people willing to make judgement calls on demand.  Any lines that are
blank means the person who doesn't feel qualified to make the judgement
call gets to make it anyway :)

This would also mean that this file serves a completely different
purpose than the PEPs, and is thus not redundant with them.

--David