Re: [Python-Dev] Scandir module seeking new maintainer

2016-03-29 Thread Ethan Furman
On 03/29/2016 07:14 AM, Ben Hoyt wrote: Victor Stinner has agreed to take over maintenance of the backport module -- thanks Victor! Yup, thanks Victor! And thanks Ethan for volunteering as well -- I appreciate it. Your welcome. Good luck in your other endeavors! -- ~Ethan~

Re: [Python-Dev] Scandir module seeking new maintainer

2016-03-29 Thread Ben Hoyt
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

Re: [Python-Dev] Scandir module seeking new maintainer

2016-03-29 Thread Ben Hoyt
FYI to the group: I'll discuss details with Victor privately. -Ben On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Ben Hoyt 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Scandir module seeking new maintainer

2016-03-29 Thread Ben Hoyt
> 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Scandir module seeking new maintainer

2016-03-29 Thread Ben Hoyt
> > So I'm looking for someone who wants to take over the maintenance of the >> scandir PyPI module. It wouldn't be much work, as there are only a >> couple of fairly small issues to fix. Or it might be a good way to start >> for someone who wants to contribute to a small but useful open source >>

Re: [Python-Dev] Scandir module seeking new maintainer

2016-03-29 Thread Victor Stinner
Hi, 2016-03-29 2:55 GMT+02:00 Ben Hoyt : > I'm the author and current maintainer of the scandir module (Python 3.5's > os.scandir but for Python 2.x and 3.x before 3.5). But I've taken on a few > new non-programming projects and found I don't have time for the little >

Re: [Python-Dev] Scandir module seeking new maintainer

2016-03-28 Thread Ethan Furman
On 03/28/2016 05:55 PM, Ben Hoyt wrote: I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but seeing I was fairly active here when developing scandir and getting it into Python 3.5, so I thought I'd start here. It's certainly a good place to start. So I'm looking for someone who wants to take