[python-committers] Why?

[Jesse Noller]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:41 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>> On 2008-07-30 14:54, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> Sorry if this is a naive question, but I was just wondering what the
>>> purpose of this mailing list would be. I don't think there are often
>>> python related topics that are only applicable to committers. What
>>> sort of things will we discuss here?
>>
>> I suppose the list would be useful for notices related to
>> a frozen trunk or other admin notices. Filtering those from
>> python-dev is not very reliable.
>>
>
> MAL hit it right on the head. Guido's idea was to have a list where
> you should not have to mentally filter out threads because it has
> deteriorated into some competition over what color to paint the
> bikeshed (see the whole unittest method name fiasco for a good
> example). Because we all ignore various threads on python-dev there is
> a chance that something important might get missed. This lowers that
> chance by making sure this list is low-volume and high-quality in
> terms of what all committers need to be aware of.
>
> -Brett

This might also be a good place to request code-reviews for sensitive commits