[stdlib-sig] Evolving the Standard Library

[John Szakmeister]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Armin Ronacher
<armin.ronacher at active-4.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm known for my dislike of the standard libray.  In the past I wrote
> some blog posts about this topic into my personal blog already.  However
> as many people pointed out earlier, a blog is not the place for this
> kind of criticism.  Not only that, also just ranting about a topic does
> not help at all.  Yesterday I subscribed to the stdlib-sig and
> immediately tons of mails ended up in my inbox.  A quick look at the
> mail archives confirms what I was afraid of: this list is really high
> traffic.  I tried to read up some of the discussions I missed but it's
> nearly impossible to do that.

I think that's out of the norm... the list has been quiet until recently. :-)

[snip]
> Any maybe we should have some elected task forces for things like the
> standard library.  Judging from the mailinglist it appears that far too
> many people are discussing *every detail* of it.  It is a good idea to
> ask as many people as possible, but I am not sure if the mailinglist is
> the way to do that.  It is currently very hard to see the direction in
> which development is heading.
>
>
> Please think of this email just as a suggestion.  I don't have too much
> trust into myself to follow the discussions on this list camely enough
> to become a real part of a solution, but I would love to help shifting
> the development into a better direction, no matter which one it will be.

Just a thought: PyCon 2010 is around the corner.  Open space?
Something more formalized?  Is that too late (because we will have
lost momentum)?

-John