Maintainers Index ================= This document has tables that list Python Modules, Tools, Platforms and Interest Areas and names for each item that indicate a maintainer or an expert in the field. 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 Platform and Interest Area tables list broader fields 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 pitrou abc aifc r.david.murray argparse bethard array ast asynchat josiahcarlson, giampaolo.rodola asyncore josiahcarlson, giampaolo.rodola 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 andrew.kuchling datetime alexander.belopolsky dbm decimal facundobatista, rhettinger, mark.dickinson difflib tim_one dis distutils tarek doctest tim_one (inactive) dummy_threading brett.cannon email barry, r.david.murray encodings lemburg errno exceptions fcntl filecmp fileinput fnmatch formatter fpectl fractions mark.dickinson, rhettinger ftplib giampaolo.rodola functools gc pitrou getopt getpass gettext glob grp gzip hashlib heapq rhettinger hmac html http idlelib kbk imaplib imghdr imp importlib brett.cannon inspect io pitrou, benjamin.peterson itertools rhettinger json bob.ippolito (inactive) keyword lib2to3 benjamin.peterson linecache locale lemburg logging vsajip macpath mailbox andrew.kuchling mailcap marshal math mark.dickinson, rhettinger mimetypes mmap modulefinder theller, jvr msilib msvcrt multiprocessing jnoller netrc nis nntplib numbers operator optparse aronacher os ossaudiodev parser pdb georg.brandl pickle alexandre.vassalotti, pitrou pickletools alexandre.vassalotti pipes pkgutil platform lemburg plistlib poplib posix pprint fdrake pstats pty pwd py_compile pybench lemburg, pitrou pyclbr pydoc queue rhettinger quopri random rhettinger re effbot (inactive), pitrou readline reprlib resource rlcompleter runpy ncoghlan sched select shelve shlex shutil tarek signal site smtpd smtplib sndhdr socket socketserver spwd sqlite3 ghaering ssl janssen, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola stat string stringprep struct mark.dickinson subprocess astrand (inactive) sunau symbol symtable benjamin.peterson sys sysconfig tarek syslog jafo tabnanny tim_one tarfile lars.gustaebel telnetlib tempfile termios test textwrap threading pitrou time alexander.belopolsky timeit tkinter gpolo token georg.brandl tokenize trace alexander.belopolsky traceback georg.brandl tty turtle gregorlingl types unicodedata lemburg, ezio.melotti unittest michael.foord urllib orsenthil uu uuid warnings brett.cannon wave weakref fdrake, pitrou webbrowser georg.brandl winreg brian.curtin winsound effbot (inactive) wsgiref pje xdrlib xml.dom xml.dom.minidom xml.dom.pulldom xml.etree effbot (inactive) xml.parsers.expat xml.sax xml.sax.handler xml.sax.saxutils xml.sax.xmlreader xmlrpc zipfile zipimport zlib ================== =========== ================== =========== Tool Maintainers ------------------ ----------- pybench lemburg ================== =========== Platform Maintainers ------------------ ----------- AIX Cygwin jlt63 FreeBSD HP-UX Linux Mac ronaldoussoren NetBSD1 OS2/EMX aimacintyre Solaris Windows ================== =========== ================== =========== Interest Area Maintainers ------------------ ----------- algorithms ast/compiler ncoghlan, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, georg.brandl autoconf/makefiles bsd buildbots bytecode pitrou 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 mathematics mark.dickinson, eric.smith, lemburg memory management tim_one, lemburg networking giampaolo.rodola packaging tarek, lemburg py3 transition benjamin.peterson release management tarek, lemburg, benjamin.peterson, barry, gvanrossum, anthonybaxter str.format eric.smith time and dates lemburg testing michael.foord, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola threads tracker unicode lemburg, ezio.melotti, haypo version control ================== ===========