[Python-Dev] Meta-reflections (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Thu, 21 Feb 2002 17:41:18 -0500

[David Abrahams]

FWIW, some of my Boost colleagues have been watching SF's future prospects with some suspicion.

It's worth a lot, and we do too -- at least in fits, when somebody remembers it's something that's going to kill us someday.

The financial outlook is worrisome; I submitted a support request in April 2001 that still hasn't been addressed ( <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=414066&group_id=1&atid=3500 01>).

Well, that's really a feature request, and nobody responds well to witty oblique references to the Odyssey except me .

We're establishing all new services elsewhere, and even moving some old ones. For the long-term health of Python, you might want to make sure you're prepared to move quickly if neccessary.

We supposedly have a cron job set up to suck down Python's CVS tarball every night (the people who would know if this is currently working are out this week).

What I don't think we ever figured out how to do was capture the info in the trackers (bugs, patches, feature requests). That would be a major loss, as well as a chance to forget about 500 people who can't figure out how to use threads on HP-UX, so let's call it a wash .