Éric Araujo <mer...@netwok.org> added the comment: I’m sorry to have launched this thread. I hadn’t thought that Senthil is doing a lot of good work on HTTP and URI-related modules, and I wanted to express my feeling that this bug would not get fixed without someone proposing a patch. I didn’t want to imply that the request was not valid nor to discourage bug reporters. If I did, I sincerely apologize.
To address the issues Anatoly raised before I stop being off-topic: 1) Patch submission: You can already use Mercurial to prepare patches (bare Mercurial, MQ or pbranch, on top of a Subversion checkout or Mercurial clone (code.python.org/hg, kindly maintained by Antoine). 2) No maintainer for CGI: The term “maintainer” is explained at the top of the Misc/maintainers.rst file, it means a core developer taking special care of one area or module. All core developpers are collectively maintaining the whole stdlib; a module without a dedicated maintainer is *not* unmaintained. 3) Nothing better than CGI in stdlib: BaseHTTPServer is handy for quick testing; wsgiref is okay for quick testing of WSGI applications. Third-party servers have different design goals and advantages for various classes of users. 4) The header thing is a bug; I’ll search whether it’s already reported. 5) Current workflow seems good to the vast majority of contributors. I’ve been contributing for a few months and found the workflow reasonable and working, like a lot of people. That said, a Web UI for doc changes with live preview may be a good way to let non-programmers propose fixes; please open a feature request on Sphinx’ tracker (on Bitbucket) or ask for opinions on d...@python.org. Again, we’re all volunteers here, so “you should do X” works a lot less than “I want to do X”. I hope I have provided some hints and data points; I do not wish this off-topic discussion to continue. Like Antoine said, we now understand your viewpoint, and your suggestions for improvement would be more fruitful on relevant mailing lists. Regards ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9008> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
