Re: [Python-Dev] Recording BDFL delegates for PEPs

2012-05-06 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Antoine Pitrou writes: > I have to ask - is email obfuscation still useful these days? It's hard to say. It's still a FAQ on Mailman lists, so people still believe it's useful. I don't think there's hard evidence either way (even guessing depends on the economics of the spamming business, and

Re: [Python-Dev] Recording BDFL delegates for PEPs

2012-05-06 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Sunday, May 6, 2012, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On May 06, 2012, at 09:31 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > >I have to ask - is email obfuscation still useful these days? > > I think it's more important that Python developers (especially those > submitting or pronouncing on PEPs) can be contacted by oth

Re: [Python-Dev] Recording BDFL delegates for PEPs

2012-05-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
On May 06, 2012, at 09:31 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >I have to ask - is email obfuscation still useful these days? I think it's more important that Python developers (especially those submitting or pronouncing on PEPs) can be contacted by other Python developers. I *personally* don't care about

Re: [Python-Dev] Recording BDFL delegates for PEPs

2012-05-06 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Sun, 6 May 2012 16:45:32 +1000 > Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >> For the moment, I suggest leaving your email address out of this >> field. The email obfuscation is applied on a field-by-field basis, and >> the formatter for reStructuredText PE

Re: [Python-Dev] Recording BDFL delegates for PEPs

2012-05-06 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sun, 6 May 2012 16:45:32 +1000 Nick Coghlan wrote: > > For the moment, I suggest leaving your email address out of this > field. The email obfuscation is applied on a field-by-field basis, and > the formatter for reStructuredText PEPs actually lives in the docutils > upstream rather than being

[Python-Dev] Recording BDFL delegates for PEPs

2012-05-05 Thread Nick Coghlan
At Barry's suggestion (following my PEP 1 updates), I've also updated the PEP 0 generation machinery to handle an explicit "BDFL-Delegate" field. You can see an example here with PEP 3151: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3151/ I also updated the 3 PEPs that are on my plate (405, 415 and 3144).