[python-committers] Language moratorium

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 at 11:04 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

> On Jul 19, 2018, at 08:41, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> >
> > Then we would have to solve our governance problem sooner rather than
> later. But i don't think every Python release has to make a huge splash.
>
> The other option of course is to push the release date of Python 3.8 back
> to accommodate the new governance structure.
>
> > On Jul 18, 2018, at 19:23, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Unsure!  Governance is needed to resolve conflict.  When there's broad
> agreement, "leaders" aren't really needed.  For example, there's been a bit
> of talk on python-ideas about adding a new `intmath` module capturing some
> frequently reinvented functions for which decent implementations are known
> but non-obvious (e.g., for generating the primes).  Nobody could sanely
> fight to death against something like that.  Even whining about it would
> appear petty ;-)
>
>
> I don’t necessarily include new modules, other stdlib changes, build or
> performance improvements, and other such “normal development” work (i.e.
> bug fixing) to be affected by a language moratorium.  PEP 572-level
> decisions would very definitely fall under that rubric.
>
> We have plenty of experts still in place that can make more minor
> decisions.  In fact, perhaps we should largely operate as if our BDFL were
> just on a long vacation and not pronouncing on PEPs.  That’s never frozen
> Python development before, and shouldn’t now.
>
> If PEP 572 were the only new syntax for 3.8, then so be it.
>

That last time we had a language moratorium we allowed new stdlib modules (
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3003/).
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