[Python-Dev] Dropping externally maintained packages (Was:Please stop changing wsgiref on the trunk) (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Mon Jun 12 20:17:02 CEST 2006

Brett Cannon wrote:

But I don't think this is trying to say they don't care. People just want to lower the overhead of maintaining the distro.

well, wouldn't the best way to do that be to leave all non-trivial maintenance of a given component to an existing external community?

(after all, the number of non-python-dev python contributors are much larger than the number of python-dev contributors).

I mean, we're not really talking about ordinary leak-elimination or portability-fixing or security-hole-plugging maintenance; it's the let's-extend-the-api-in-incompatible- ways and fork-because-we-can stuff that I'm worried about.

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