On 14 October 2013 00:05, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 22:50:07 +1000 > Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> That's the way this works (unless you think this is such a disastrous >> addition that you want to appeal to Guido to strip me of my >> responsibilities as contextlib maintainer and go hunting for a new >> one). > > Wow... I don't think challenging others to "strip you of your > responsibilities" is a reasonable way to address criticism. > > And for the record, it's not *my* objection; several other core > developers have said -1 too: Ezio, Serhiy, Giampaolo, etc.
When people keep complaining after I have posted, as the module maintainer, saying: ================== "For the record, this thread did prompt me to consider the new construct anew, but on reflection, I still consider it a reasonable addition to contextlib. It substantially improves the simple cases it is intended to help with, and, if anything, makes overly broad exception suppression *more* obviously dubious (because the name of the construct doesn't match the consequences for multi-line suites)." ================== Then, yes, I think challenging people to try to get me booted as module maintainer for contextlib is a *precisely* proportionate response. Getting to decide what colour the bikeshed is painted (and if we even have a bikeshed at all) is what being a module maintainer *means*. I had previously agreed it was a borderline decision. I stated that I had reviewed that decision. I stated that I hadn't changed my mind. Yet people kept complaining. That's a pretty clear statement that they don't trust my judgement. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
