[Python-Dev] BDFL delegation for PEP 426 (PyPI metadata 1.3) (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Feb 3 07:04:32 CET 2013


In doing the detailed review of PEP 426 as BDFL-Delegate, I keep noticing confusing problems with the current spec that mean I want to become a co-author on the spec, rather than explaining to the current authors the aspects I object to, until they produce a version that I'm happy with (this is frustrating for the authors as well, since several of the problems have been inherited from the previous version of the spec rather than being new in the current version).

Now, Guido's authored and accepted his own PEPs in the past, but to date we've avoided letting anyone else do that. Since I definitely want to co-author the new metadata PEP (mostly to address issues with the version specifier section and to include the rationale for changes, rather than merely listing them as previous versions of the metadata PEPs have done), that means one of the following needs to happen:

Regards, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia



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