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Victor Stinner has agreed to take over maintenance of the backport module -- thanks Victor! His plan is straightforward -- to backport enhancements from CPython 3.6 and release a new PyPI version.

And thanks Ethan for volunteering as well -- I appreciate it.

-Ben

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Ben Hoyt <benhoyt@gmail.com> wrote:

FYI to the group: I'll discuss details with Victor privately. -Ben

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Ben Hoyt <benhoyt@gmail.com> wrote:

FYI I just finished (I hope!) to bug on os.walk(bytes) on Windows with
the "emulated" scandir (since os.scandir() only works on Unicode on
Python 3.5+):
http://bugs.python.org/issue25911

Since I helped you to write your PEP 471 (scandir) as the
BDFL-delegate, I think that I now understand well scandir(). So I can
help you to maintain your backport.

Indeed -- probably better than me at this point! I haven't quite been able to keep up with the latest CPython patches. In any case, I think you'd be an ideal person for maintaining the backport. I know there was some question in the past about whether you had desire/time for more open source contributions; in that light, are you willing and do you have the time? Though again, this isn't a big module and really just a few fixes at this point.

-Ben