Maintainers Index ================= This document cross references Python Modules (first table) and platforms (second table) with the Tracker user names of people who are experts and/or resources for that module or platform. This list is intended to be used by issue submitters, issue triage people, and other issue participants to find people to add to the nosy list or to contact directly by email for help and decisions on feature requests and bug fixes. People on this list may be asked to render final judgement on a feature or bug. If no active maintainer is listed for a given module, then questionable changes should go to python-dev, while any other issues can and should be decided by any committer. The last part of this document is a third table, listing broader topic areas in which various people have expertise. These people can also be contacted for help, opinions, and decisions when issues involve their areas. If a listed maintainer does not respond to requests for comment for an extended period (three weeks or more), they should be marked as inactive in this list by placing the word 'inactive' in parenthesis behind their tracker id. They are of course free to remove that inactive mark at any time. Committers should update this table as their areas of expertise widen. New topics may be added to the third table at will. The existence of this list is not meant to indicate that these people *must* be contacted for decisions; it is, rather, a resource to be used by non-committers to find responsible parties, and by committers who do not feel qualified to make a decision in a particular context. See also `PEP 291`_ and `PEP 360`_ for information about certain modules with special rules. .. _`PEP 291`: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0291/ .. _`PEP 360`: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0360/ ================== =========== Module Maintainers ================== =========== __future__ __main__ gvanrossum _dummy_thread brett.cannon _thread abc aifc r.david.murray array ast asynchat josiahcarlson asyncore josiahcarlson atexit audioop base64 bdb binascii binhex bisect rhettinger builtins bz2 calendar cgi cgitb chunk cmath mark.dickinson cmd code codecs lemburg, doerwalter codeop collections rhettinger colorsys compileall configparser contextlib copy alexandre.vassalotti copyreg alexandre.vassalotti cProfile crypt csv ctypes theller curses datetime dbm decimal facundobatista, rhettinger, mark.dickinson difflib dis distutils tarek doctest tim_one (inactive) dummy_threading brett.cannon email barry encodings lemburg, loewis errno exceptions fcntl filecmp fileinput fnmatch formatter fpectl fractions mark.dickinson ftplib functools gc getopt getpass gettext loewis glob grp gzip hashlib heapq rhettinger hmac html http imaplib imghdr imp importlib brett.cannon inspect io pitrou, benjamin.peterson itertools rhettinger json bob.ippolito (inactive) keyword lib2to3 benjamin.peterson linecache locale loewis, lemburg logging vsajip macpath mailbox andrew.kuchling mailcap marshal math mark.dickinson mimetypes mmap modulefinder theller, jvr msilib loewis msvcrt multiprocessing jnoller netrc nis nntplib numbers operator optparse aronacher os loewis ossaudiodev parser pdb pickle alexandre.vassalotti pickletools alexandre.vassalotti pipes pkgutil platform lemburg plistlib poplib posix pprint fdrake pstats pty pwd py_compile pybench lemburg pyclbr pydoc queue quopri random rhettinger re effbot (inactive) readline reprlib resource rlcompleter runpy ncoghlan sched select shelve shlex shutil signal site smtpd smtplib sndhdr socket socketserver spwd sqlite3 ghaering ssl janssen stat string stringprep struct mark.dickinson subprocess astrand (inactive) sunau symbol symtable sys syslog tabnanny tim_one tarfile lars.gustaebel telnetlib tempfile termios test textwrap threading time brett.cannon timeit tkinter gpolo token tokenize trace traceback tty turtle gregorlingl types unicodedata loewis, lemburg unittest michael.foord urllib uu uuid warnings wave weakref fdrake webbrowser georg.brandl winreg winsound effbot (inactive) wsgiref pje xdrlib xml loewis xml.etree effbot (inactive) xmlrpc loewis zipfile zipimport zlib ================== =========== ================== =========== Platform Maintainer ------------------ ----------- AIX Cygwin jlt63 FreeBSD Linux Mac ronaldoussoren NetBSD1 OS2/EMX aimacintyre Solaris HP-UX ================== =========== ================== =========== Interest Area Maintainers ------------------ ----------- algorithms ast/compiler ncoghlan, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, georg.brandl autoconf bsd buildbots data formats mark.dickinson, georg.brandl database lemburg documentation georg.brandl, ezio.melotti GUI i18n lemburg import machinery brett.cannon, ncoghlan io pitrou, benjamin.peterson locale lemburg, loewis makefiles mathematics mark.dickinson, eric.smith, lemburg memory management tim_one, lemburg networking packaging tarek, lemburg release management tarek, lemburg str.format eric.smith time and dates lemburg testing michael.foord threads unicode lemburg windows ================== ===========