Re: [python-committers] python-committers is dead, long live discuss.python.org

2018-09-29 Thread Robert Collins
+1 If someone can tell me how to configure discourse to work like a mailing list; specifically: - email me messsages rather than 'X new messages" nuisance-mails - work sanely with replies-from-mail then I'm certainly happy to adapt. -Rob On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 at 13:19, Barry Warsaw wrote: > >

Re: [python-committers] Proposal: an explicit, time-limited moratorium on finalizing any governance decisions

2018-07-18 Thread Robert Collins
So, I'm fine with this, but FWIW I'm also fine with anything we come up with: I trust us, our intentions individually and in aggregate, and I can't imagine a poor outcome. -Rob On 19 July 2018 at 14:36, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > [tl;dr: We need some ground rules, because uncertainty makes it hard

Re: [python-committers] Transfer of power

2018-07-12 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri., 13 Jul. 2018, 02:58 Guido van Rossum, wrote: > available. But I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being > BDFL, and you all will be on your own. > Thank you for being here, benevolent, for so long . You've been a great example in our communities and it is much apprecia

Re: [python-committers] Poll: Do you like the PEP 572 Assignment Expressions?

2018-05-02 Thread Robert Collins
I'd very much like the feature, but not sure that the proposed change is a good fit today. -Rob On 2 May 2018 at 22:13, Victor Stinner wrote: > 2018-05-02 11:56 GMT+02:00 Paul Moore : >> On 2 May 2018 at 10:49, Victor Stinner wrote: >>> I would like to start a poll on Chris Angelico's PEP 572 "

Re: [python-committers] The peps repo is now on GitHub!

2016-06-16 Thread Robert Collins
Folk can't argue with robots: I think its useful to have an escape valve for dealing with spurious failures - the Python Core team is pretty responsible, and I think we should permit bypassing robots, at least until we have lots of run-time to learn about any flakiness present. -Rob On 16 June 20

Re: [python-committers] A possible solution to the Misc/NEWS merging problem

2015-08-10 Thread Robert Collins
le are either happy with this approach or will begrudgingly accept it. Clearly I should join the core-workflow list. Has anyone put forward the 'standard' solution other projects use: to extract NEWS entries from commit logs? -Rob -- Rober

Re: [python-committers] "Gratuitous"? incompatibilities in the "fix only" releases

2015-07-29 Thread Robert Collins
On 30 July 2015 at 05:20, Eric Snow wrote: > > On Jul 29, 2015 11:08 AM, "Robert Collins" > wrote: >> >> On 30 July 2015 at 04:50, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> > The more recent Python 2.7 bugfix releases have >> > specific exemptions

Re: [python-committers] "Gratuitous"? incompatibilities in the "fix only" releases

2015-07-29 Thread Robert Collins
On 30 July 2015 at 04:50, Guido van Rossum wrote: > I believe that in this particular case, the bug was fixed (by tightening the > requirements for headers) because the bug can lead to security > vulnerabilities. I think you can find more by Googling for keywords like > "http header injection". Th

Re: [python-committers] [Python-Dev] Reminder: Python 3.5 beta 4 is tagged in one week

2015-07-23 Thread Robert Collins
On 22 July 2015 at 08:07, Robert Collins wrote: > On 22 July 2015 at 05:08, Larry Hastings wrote: >> >> >> On 07/21/2015 06:35 PM, Robert Collins wrote: >> >> Cool. http://bugs.python.org/issue21750 is in a bad state right now. >> >> I landed a pat

Re: [python-committers] [Python-Dev] Reminder: Python 3.5 beta 4 is tagged in one week

2015-07-21 Thread Robert Collins
On 22 July 2015 at 05:08, Larry Hastings wrote: > > > On 07/21/2015 06:35 PM, Robert Collins wrote: > > Cool. http://bugs.python.org/issue21750 is in a bad state right now. > > I landed a patch to fix it, which when exposed to users had some > defects. I'm working on

Re: [python-committers] [Python-Dev] Reminder: Python 3.5 beta 4 is tagged in one week

2015-07-21 Thread Robert Collins
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Re: [python-committers] Co-maintainer(s) for contextlib, dis and/or runpy?

2015-06-26 Thread Robert Collins
I'm happy to provide on demand reviews. I an take on the backporting easily enough. On 27 Jun 2015 4:47 pm, "Nick Coghlan" wrote: > Hi folks, > > My available time for the fundamentals of stdlib module maintenance is > unfortunately pretty limited these days, which means even reviewed > patches f