Re: [Python-Dev] we will probably be having an difficult discussion about the stdlib after PEP 594 is done

2019-05-24 Thread Ben Cail
First, thanks to all the python core devs (and others) who work on Python - many, many people (myself included) benefit from your work. Suggestion below... On 5/23/19 9:02 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: On May 23, 2019, at 14:17, Brett Cannon wrote: I'm personally viewing it as a first step in add

Re: [Python-Dev] we will probably be having an difficult discussion about the stdlib after PEP 594 is done

2019-05-24 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Fri, May 24, 2019, 08:08 Ben Cail wrote: > > Why not have the PSF hire someone (or multiple people) to be paid to > work on the maintenance burden? This could be similar to the Django > fellows: > https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/#who-is-the-django-fellow. It > seems like a good thing

Re: [Python-Dev] we will probably be having an difficult discussion about the stdlib after PEP 594 is done

2019-05-24 Thread Brett Cannon
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 11:07 AM Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2019, 08:08 Ben Cail wrote: > >> >> Why not have the PSF hire someone (or multiple people) to be paid to >> work on the maintenance burden? This could be similar to the Django >> fellows: >> https://www.djangoproject.com/f

[Python-Dev] we will probably be having an difficult discussion about the stdlib after PEP 594 is done (was: PEP 594: Removing dead batteries from the standard library)

2019-05-23 Thread Brett Cannon
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 11:03 AM Barry Warsaw wrote: > On May 20, 2019, at 13:15, Christian Heimes wrote: > > > > here is the first version of my PEP 594 to deprecate and eventually > remove modules from the standard library. The PEP started last year with > talk during the Python Language Summi

Re: [Python-Dev] we will probably be having an difficult discussion about the stdlib after PEP 594 is done (was: PEP 594: Removing dead batteries from the standard library)

2019-05-23 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 23, 2019, at 14:17, Brett Cannon wrote: > I'm personally viewing it as a first step in addressing the maintenance > burden we have with such a large stdlib. Christian started this work over a > year ago and I think it's worth seeing through. After that we should probably > have a discus

Re: [Python-Dev] we will probably be having an difficult discussion about the stdlib after PEP 594 is done (was: PEP 594: Removing dead batteries from the standard library)

2019-05-24 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 2:18 PM Brett Cannon wrote: > I'm personally viewing it as a first step in addressing the maintenance > burden we have with such a large stdlib. Christian started this work over a > year ago and I think it's worth seeing through. After that we should probably > have a di