[meta-sig] Retired SIGS, SIG ownership

[Guido van Rossum]

> Looking at
> 
> http://www.python.org/sigs/
> 
> I see loads of expired SIGs. In fact, except for the never-expiring
> SIGS, and the catalog SIG, all SIGs are expired.
> 
> I propose to revive the following SIGs, with their old mission
> statement. The selection is based on the criteria that they had
> mailing list traffic on each month of 2001:
> 
> db-sig
> distutils-sig
> do-sig
> doc-sig
> edu-sig
> image-sig
> pythonmac-sig
> xml-sig
> 
> These SIGs should be extended by atleast 2 years (giving an expiration
> date of June 2002 for most SIGs)

Done.

> The following SIGs did not meat this criterion, but should probably be
> revived if since I expect that people will continue to work on it, and
> discuss this topic now and then:
> 
> i18n-sig
> import-sig
> types-sig

I've extended these through December 2001.

> I propose the to expire the following SIGs, since they either have
> achieved their mission (thread-sig), or failed to do so with no
> visible progress:
> 
> c++-sig
> compiler-sig
> plot-sig
> thread-sig

Agreed.  I'll post to each of these sigs about their imminent demise.
I expect that Geoff Furnish will yet again complain about plans to
shut down the C++ sig.  Possibly Jeremy Hylton has plans for the
compiler-sig.

> In addition, it appears that the meta-sig owner is incorrectly 
> listed; what happened to the fame that Guido promised to anybody 
> taking over ?-)

Oops.  Done.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)