[Python-Dev] Misc/maintainers.rst (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Thu Sep 17 19:57:55 CEST 2009

Looks great to me! Only thing missing that I can think of is sticking Eric down as the guy who does str.format(). =)

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:14, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:

I floated a proposal on stdlib-sig to create a file named Misc/maintainers.rst.  The purpose of this file is to collect knowledge about who knows which modules well enough to make decision about issues in the tracker when the participants in the issue aren't sure, and to write down the community knowledge about who has special interest and expertise in specific topic areas.

This proposal was met with approval and, after a couple of small modifications of the proposal, no dissent; so I've created the skeleton of the file.  I've filled in some of the blanks where I had personal knowledge, was told info on IRC, from the two referenced PEPs, and from PEP 11. Feel free to respond with comments about the header text, but more importantly let me know what you know about who (especially if it is you) should be listed for each module, platform, and topic, and feel free to suggest additional topics.  My goal is to record the community knowledge. Another topic of discussion that is orthogonal to filling in the table is whether or not to publish it outside the repository.  Jesse would like to see it included in the Python Documentation, and Georg has suggested the possibility of creating a separate, sphinx-based, automatically-uploaded document collection in the repository to contain this and related information (Misc/devdocs?). The module list was built from the py3k documentation module index, with the addition of 'pybench' from PEP 291.  If there are other modules/tools that are missing, or submodules that should be broken out into separate lines, please let me know. After the initial flurry of updates and comments dies down I will check this in. --David ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Maintainers Index ================= This document cross references Python Modules (first table) and platforms (second table) with the Tracker user names of people who are experts and/or resources for that module or platform.  This list is intended to be used by issue submitters, issue triage people, and other issue participants to find people to add to the nosy list or to contact directly by email for help and decisions on feature requests and bug fixes.  People on this list may be asked to render final judgement on a feature or bug.  If no active maintainer is listed for a given module, then questionable changes should go to python-dev, while any other issues can and should be decided by any committer. The last part of this document is a third table, listing broader topic areas in which various people have expertise.  These people can also be contacted for help, opinions, and decisions when issues involve their areas. If a listed maintainer does not respond to requests for comment for an extended period (three weeks or more), they should be marked as inactive in this list by placing the word 'inactive' in parenthesis behind their tracker id.  They are of course free to remove that inactive mark at any time. Committers should update this table as their areas of expertise widen. New topics may be added to the third table at will. The existence of this list is not meant to indicate that these people must be contacted for decisions; it is, rather, a resource to be used by non-committers to find responsible parties, and by committers who do not feel qualified to make a decision in a particular context. See also PEP 291 and PEP 360 for information about certain modules with special rules. .. PEP 291: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0291/ .. PEP 360: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0360/

==================  =========== Module              Maintainers ==================  =========== future main            gvanrossum dummythread       brett.cannon thread abc aifc                r.david.murray array ast asynchat            josiahcarlson asyncore            josiahcarlson atexit audioop base64 bdb binascii binhex bisect builtins bz2 calendar cgi cgitb chunk cmath cmd code codecs codeop collections colorsys compileall configparser contextlib copy copyreg cProfile crypt csv ctypes              theller curses datetime dbm decimal difflib dis distutils           tarek doctest dummythreading     brett.cannon email               barry encodings errno exceptions fcntl filecmp fileinput fnmatch formatter fpectl fractions ftplib functools gc getopt getpass gettext glob grp gzip hashlib heapq hmac html http imaplib imghdr imp importlib           brett.cannon inspect io                  pitrou, benjamin.peterson itertools json keyword lib2to3             benjamin.peterson linecache locale logging             vsajip macpath mailbox mailcap marshal math mimetypes mmap modulefinder        theller, jvr msilib msvcrt multiprocessing     jnoller netrc nis nntplib numbers operator optparse            aronacher os ossaudiodev parser pdb pickle pickletools pipes pkgutil platform            lemburg plistlib poplib posix pprint pstats pty pwd pycompile pybench             lemburg pyclbr pydoc queue quopri random re readline reprlib resource rlcompleter runpy sched select shelve shlex shutil signal site smtpd smtplib sndhdr socket socketserver spwd sqlite3 ssl stat string stringprep struct subprocess          astrand (inactive) sunau symbol symtable sys syslog tabnanny tarfile telnetlib tempfile termios test textwrap threading time timeit tkinter             gpolo token tokenize trace traceback tty turtle              gregorlingl types unicodedata unittest            michael.foord urllib uu uuid warnings wave weakref webbrowser          georg.brandl winreg winsound wsgiref             pje xdrlib xml                 loewis xml.etree           effbot (inactive) xmlrpc              loewis zipfile zipimport zlib ==================  =========== ==================  =========== Platform            Maintainer ------------------  ----------- AIX Cygwin              jlt63 FreeBSD Linux Mac                 ronaldoussoren NetBSD1 OS2/EMX             aimacintyre Solaris HP-UX ==================  =========== ==================  =========== Interest Area       Maintainers ------------------  ----------- algorithms ast/compiler autoconf bsd buildbots data formats database documentation       georg.brandl GUI i18n import machinery    brett.cannon io                  pitrou, benjamin.peterson locale makefiles mathematics         marketdickinson, eric.smith memory management networking packaging release management time and dates testing             michael.foord threads unicode windows ==================  ===========

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