Maintainers Index ================= .. warning:: This document is out of date and replaced by another version in the developer's guide at http://docs.python.org/devguide/experts This document has tables that list Python Modules, Tools,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. Unless a name is followed by a '*', you should never assign an issue to that person, only make them nosy. Names followed by a '*' may be assigned issues involving the module or topic. 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 these tables as their areas of expertise widen. New topics may be added to the Interest Area 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 ================== =========== __builtin__ __future__ __main__ gvanrossum _dummy_thread brett.cannon _thread pitrou _winreg brian.curtin*, stutzbach abc aifc r.david.murray argparse bethard array ast asynchat josiahcarlson, giampaolo.rodola, stutzbach asyncore josiahcarlson, giampaolo.rodola, stutzbach atexit audioop base64 BaseHTTPServer bdb binascii binhex bisect rhettinger bz2 calendar rhettinger cgi CGIHTTPServer cgitb chunk cmath mark.dickinson cmd code codecs lemburg, doerwalter codeop collections rhettinger collections._abcoll rhettinger, stutzbach colorsys compileall ConfigParser lukasz.langa contextlib ncoghlan copy alexandre.vassalotti copy_reg alexandre.vassalotti cProfile crypt jafo* csv skip.montanaro ctypes theller curses datetime belopolsky dbm decimal facundobatista, rhettinger, mark.dickinson difflib tim_one (inactive) dis distutils tarek*, eric.araujo* doctest tim_one (inactive) dummy_threading brett.cannon email barry, r.david.murray* encodings lemburg, loewis errno exceptions fcntl filecmp fileinput fnmatch formatter fpectl fractions mark.dickinson, rhettinger ftplib giampaolo.rodola functools ncoghlan, rhettinger gc pitrou getopt getpass gettext loewis glob grp gzip hashlib heapq rhettinger, stutzbach hmac htmlentitydefs htmllib HTMLParser httplib idlelib kbk imaplib imghdr imp importlib brett.cannon inspect io pitrou, benjamin.peterson, stutzbach itertools rhettinger json bob.ippolito (inactive), rhettinger keyword lib2to3 benjamin.peterson linecache locale loewis, lemburg logging vinay.sajip macpath mailbox mailcap marshal math mark.dickinson, rhettinger, stutzbach mimetypes mmap modulefinder theller, jvr msilib loewis msvcrt multiprocessing jnoller netrc nis nntplib pitrou numbers operator optparse aronacher os loewis ossaudiodev parser pdb georg.brandl* pickle alexandre.vassalotti, pitrou pickletools alexandre.vassalotti pipes pkgutil platform lemburg plistlib poplib posix pprint fdrake profile georg.brandl pstats georg.brandl pty pwd py_compile pybench lemburg, pitrou pyclbr pydoc Queue rhettinger quopri random rhettinger re effbot (inactive), pitrou, ezio.melotti readline reprlib resource rlcompleter runpy ncoghlan sched select shelve shlex shutil tarek signal SimpleHTTPServer site smtpd smtplib sndhdr socket SocketServer spwd sqlite3 ghaering ssl janssen, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola stat string georg.brandl* stringprep struct mark.dickinson subprocess astrand (inactive) sunau symbol symtable benjamin.peterson sys sysconfig tarek syslog jafo* tabnanny tim_one (inactive) tarfile lars.gustaebel telnetlib tempfile georg.brandl termios test textwrap georg.brandl threading pitrou time belopolsky timeit georg.brandl Tkinter gpolo token georg.brandl tokenize trace belopolsky traceback georg.brandl* tty turtle gregorlingl types unicodedata loewis, lemburg, ezio.melotti unittest michael.foord, ezio.melotti urllib orsenthil uu uuid warnings brett.cannon wave weakref fdrake, pitrou webbrowser georg.brandl 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 loewis zipfile alanmcintyre zipimport zlib ================== =========== ================== =========== Tool Maintainers ------------------ ----------- pybench lemburg ================== =========== ================== =========== Platform Maintainers ------------------ ----------- AIX Cygwin jlt63, stutzbach FreeBSD HP-UX Linux Mac ronaldoussoren, ned.deily NetBSD1 OS2/EMX aimacintyre Solaris Windows tim.golden, brian.curtin ================== =========== ================== =========== Interest Area Maintainers ------------------ ----------- algorithms ast/compiler ncoghlan, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, georg.brandl autoconf/makefiles bsd bug tracker ezio.melotti 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, stutzbach locale lemburg, loewis mathematics mark.dickinson, eric.smith, lemburg, stutzbach memory management tim_one, lemburg networking giampaolo.rodola packaging tarek, lemburg py3 transition benjamin.peterson release management tarek, lemburg, benjamin.peterson, barry, loewis, gvanrossum, anthonybaxter str.format eric.smith testing michael.foord, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola, ezio.melotti threads pitrou time and dates lemburg, belopolsky unicode lemburg, ezio.melotti, haypo version control ================== ===========