Pythonic Quote of the Week - sliding away...

[Martijn Faassen]

Carlos Ribeiro <cribeiro at mail.inet.com.br> wrote:
[snip]
> The solution as proposed by the main python-dev guys - Guido himself and 
> Tim Peters - is that the community should take the responsibility to keep 
> the library, as we can see here:

> [Guido van Rossum, 2001-06-30 05:53:49 PST]
> So let's all do what we do best: the core developers (e.g. PythonLabs) 
> improve the language, and the community improves the library.

> [Tim Peters, Date: 2001-06-30 21:01:05 PST]
> A problem is that nobody at PythonLabs has any spare cycles. People can 
> suggest any number of things we should do for them, but we're already 
> overloaded -- it simply won't happen.

> As it's impossible to clone an army of timbots to solve this problem, we 
> must try to find another solution. I don't believe that we can sort this 
> issue without some involvement of PythonLabs and the core Python-dev guys. 
> The problem is not lack of good modules, but lack of *standard* modules. To 
> make a module standard, some level of Python-dev commitment is a *must*.

I agree completely; I've been pointing this out myself. And I wrote a
PEP that tries to account for both; I posted it just a bit ago.
In it, I define two roles, integrators and maintainers. The integrators
are PythonLabs (although some other group could be formed), and the
maintainers can be anyone; hopefully people from the community.

Anyway, see the text of the PEP for more information.

Regards,

Martijn
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