[stdlib-sig] MISC/maintainers.txt anyone?

[Jesse Noller]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
>
>> That would be a third source of info about who maintains what.
>
> Is this just a formalization of what we already do now?
>
>
> I.E.. Georg "just-knows" that I maintain sets, collections, random,
> itertools;
> he assigns those bugs or feature requests to me; and
> if i dissappear, then other developers step in and rearrange all my code ;-)

Somewhat, yes - it is a formalization. But it also helps some of us
who don't spend enough time in the tracker to know *where* to move
things. Ideally, this also helps us identify gaps in "personnel"
coverage so we can:

1> Find someone who loves it enough to maintain it
2> jettison it into space if needed (I kid... sorta!)

So yeah, it's a formalization + a data mining operation, and
hopefully, a resource to the community to help identify people who
should be added to bugs so poor Georg doesn't have to reassign
everything.

jesse