[Python-Dev] Recording BDFL delegates for PEPs (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun May 6 09:42:13 CEST 2012

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

On Sun, 6 May 2012 16:45:32 +1000 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

For the moment, I suggest leaving your email address out of this field. The email obfuscation is applied on a field-by-field basis, and the formatter for reStructuredText PEPs actually lives in the docutils upstream rather than being included directly in the PEPs repo the way the plaintext formatter is. I have to ask - is email obfuscation still useful these days? I would have thought most people protect from spam by using spam filters, not by trying to conceal their addresses.

I think it's one of those things where people like seeing it, regardless of how effective it is in practice. The delegate field isn't actually parsed at all, so people are free to include their email address if they choose to - doing so won't be necessary until we get an actual name collision amongst the core developers.

Cheers, Nick.

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