[Python-Dev] cpython: Issue #11750: The Windows API functions scattered in the _subprocess and (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Apr 19 19:21:00 CEST 2012

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang at gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 18:55, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang at gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 17:51, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

and I'm not sure we'd like to accept code from convicted fellons (though I'd consider that a gray area).

This makes me curious... why would that be a problem at all (assuming the felony is not related to the computing field)? Because the person might not be trustworthy, period. Or it might reflect badly upon Python's reputation. But yes, I could also see cases where we'd chose to trust the person anyway. This is why I said it's a gray area -- it can only be determined on a case-by-case basis. The most likely case might actually be someone like Aaron Swartz. Even if Aaron submits typo fixes for documentation :) I would think that being core developer would be the only thing that would require trust. As for a random a contributor, their patches are always reviewed by core developers before going in, so I don't see any need for trust there. Identity is another matter of course, but no one even checks if I'm the real Tshepang Lekhonkhobe.

I don't think you're a core contributor, right? Even if a core developer reviews the code, it requires a certain level of trust, especially for complex patches.

-- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)

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