[Web-SIG] wsgiref questions

[Guido van Rossum]

On 12/22/06, Chad Whitacre <chad at zetaweb.com> wrote:
> > Getting another piece of open source code added to Google's
> > infrastructure (and learning how to use it) would have been an order
> > of magnitude more effort than writing the ~50 lines of code that we
> > ended up adding.
>
> That's striking. Out of curiosity, can I ask what exactly the
> bureaucracy looks like for open source code to be used at Google?
> Since we're talking WSGI the learning curve is pretty much nil,
> so the bureaucracy must be heavy. Is it mostly a licensing issue?
> Or is it quality assurance?

I think I'm done discussing Google internals.

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