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

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 05:46, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Armin Ronacher schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Georg Brandl wrote:
>>> That's why at PyCon (or was it Europython?)

PyCon.

> we thought about a "tags"
>>> field for issues.  The main use for tags would be module names (and
>>> it should be advertised as such in the UI for submitting bugs)
>>> with auto-nosy associations for module maintainers.
>> Arbitrary tags in a bug tracker are annoying.  People will not try to
>> find exiting tags but make up their own, making it hard to query for it.
>
> I disagree. Again: we wouldn't ask submitters to populate that list with
> tags they make up, but the module name.  In the process as I envision it
> now, further tags are added/changed by developers.
>

Sounds reasonable to me. That would allow us to pull out some of the
stuff we have in the Components list to make that clearer to use.

>> I would rather see an automatically generated module list based on the
>> hg tip / svn head.
>
> That's not so easy to do.
>

Nor really necessary once the initial list is done; we don't exactly
add modules that frequently.

-Brett

> Georg
>
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