Fredrik Lundh wrote: > I can help build an infrastructure that makes it easier to create a more > complete standard distribution, sure. (and since this isn't exactly a new > idea, I'm 100% confident that I don't have to do all the work myself.) > > if this is needed is something for the PSF to decide, I suppose.
I can't get a clear picture what precisely would have to be done, and how you would imagine to transition from where we are now. However, my initial reaction would be that the PSF traditionally stays out of any kind of technical decision on the Python source code and distribution (*). It is to support the development of Python, not to control it. So my intuition is that perhaps you could just start. If you need to arrange something on python.org, you could well do so. If you want to change the way in which Python is released, you would have to convince the release manager (primarily) of doing things differently - if your plan involves changes to the way Python is released. So in the end, I think this sort of change will require some convincing, which, in turn, may require to fill paper of what the proposed changes are and how they could come about. Regards, Martin (*) Atleast formally. Informally, the opinion of the PSF members (not the formal vote of the directors) clearly does have impact on the future of Python - as many of the PSF members are also contributors to Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list