Home Original page

[python-committers] Language moratorium

Antoine Pitrou antoine at python.org
Wed Jul 18 14:52:33 EDT 2018 
Le 18/07/2018 à 20:47, Barry Warsaw a écrit :
> On Jul 18, 2018, at 09:11, Stefan Krah <stefan at bytereef.org> wrote:
> 
>> if I remember correctly, we had a moratorium for language changes around
>> versions 3.2-3.3.  I think during that time relatively few BDFL-level
>> decisions were required.
>>
>> Perhaps we could have one again, say for 12 months so we can figure things
>> out. Other Python implementations may welcome the moratorium so they can
>> catch up.
> 
> I agree that we’ll effectively have language moratorium until we have a new governance structure.  But let me ask, what do you propose to do about PEP 572?  That’s already been accepted, but not yet implemented.  Would it be exempt from the moratorium or scoot in under the wire?

Since it's accepted, the implementation is just a matter of code review
and doesn't require (AFAICT) the intervention of an ultimate authority.
As much as I dislike PEP 572...

Regards

Antoine.
More information about the python-committers mailing list