[Python-checkins] PEP 374

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Jan 25 01:17:57 CET 2009


> I'm concerned that over time we're moving towards a process that has a
> lot more admin than we used to.  Changes to PEP 8, rules on indentation,
> review rules, etc seem to be driven by the least active developers. 
> Most of the folks who do most of the work rarely ask for more
> restrictions, more admin, etc.  Even little things like automatically
> rejecting submissios without whitespace normalization add to the admin
> burden (time spent doing something that doesn't actually improve lives
> for end-users).

I think this is unfair. I added the whitespace checking, and Benjamin
Peterson revised it to be more verbose; Georg Brandl extended it to
check the documentation as well. Which of us three do you consider the
least active developer?

Regards,
Martin


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