Victor Stinner has agreed to take over maintenance of the backport module -- thanks Victor! His plan is straightforward -- to backport enhancements from CPython 3.6 and release a new PyPI version.
And thanks Ethan for volunteering as well -- I appreciate it. -Ben On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Ben Hoyt <benh...@gmail.com> wrote: > FYI to the group: I'll discuss details with Victor privately. -Ben > > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Ben Hoyt <benh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >>> FYI I just finished (I hope!) to bug on os.walk(bytes) on Windows with >>> the "emulated" scandir (since os.scandir() only works on Unicode on >>> Python 3.5+): >>> http://bugs.python.org/issue25911 >>> >>> Since I helped you to write your PEP 471 (scandir) as the >>> BDFL-delegate, I think that I now understand well scandir(). So I can >>> help you to maintain your backport. >>> >> >> Indeed -- probably better than me at this point! I haven't quite been >> able to keep up with the latest CPython patches. In any case, I think you'd >> be an ideal person for maintaining the backport. I know there was some >> question in the past about whether you had desire/time for more open source >> contributions; in that light, are you willing and do you have the time? >> Though again, this isn't a big module and really just a few fixes at this >> point. >> >> -Ben >> > >
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