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  r74881 | r.david.murray | 2009-09-17 15:12:49 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 2 lines

  Check in first draft of maintainers.rst.
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  r74882 | eric.smith | 2009-09-17 15:22:30 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Typo.
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  r74883 | mark.dickinson | 2009-09-17 15:37:28 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Add some more module maintainers.
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  r74884 | mark.dickinson | 2009-09-17 15:39:12 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Revert accidental changes to Objects/longobject.c
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  r74885 | mark.dickinson | 2009-09-17 16:20:01 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Add decimal maintainers
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  r74888 | r.david.murray | 2009-09-17 18:10:48 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 2 lines

  Maintainer additions from MAL.
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  r74891 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-17 18:18:01 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Some more maintainers.
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  r74892 | r.david.murray | 2009-09-17 19:23:56 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 2 lines

  Add a couple interest areas for Nick per his request.
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  r74893 | r.david.murray | 2009-09-17 19:43:20 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 2 lines

  Benajmin is also compiler-knowledgeable.
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  r74894 | alexandre.vassalotti | 2009-09-17 20:59:05 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 2 lines

  Added myself to my areas of interest.
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  r74895 | brett.cannon | 2009-09-17 21:03:35 -0400 (Thu, 17 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Add myself to a couple places as maintainer.
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  r74900 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-18 05:06:37 -0400 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Add myself in interest areas.
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  r74905 | ezio.melotti | 2009-09-18 05:58:43 -0400 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  Add myself in interest areas and mark effbot as inactive in winsound
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  r74906 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-09-18 09:15:23 -0400 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 3 lines

  Add myself in a couple of places
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  r74931 | r.david.murray | 2009-09-18 17:25:36 -0400 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 5 lines

  Add some names gleaned from the "Tracker Archeology" thread
  on python-dev from back in February.  Also consolidate
  the autoconf and makefiles topics into one, and add tracker
  and svn/hg topics.
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  r74932 | r.david.murray | 2009-09-18 17:32:16 -0400 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 2 lines

  Remove non-committer mistakenly added.
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  r74934 | r.david.murray | 2009-09-18 17:40:30 -0400 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 2 lines

  More descriptive/generic name for the svn/hg entry (version control)
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  r74941 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-18 18:45:59 -0400 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  add a new category for myself
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  r74942 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-09-18 18:50:55 -0400 (Fri, 18 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  add myself for symtable
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  r74944 | georg.brandl | 2009-09-19 03:39:05 -0400 (Sat, 19 Sep 2009) | 1 line

  I would like to maintain the token module!
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  r74956 | r.david.murray | 2009-09-19 14:40:08 -0400 (Sat, 19 Sep 2009) | 3 lines

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+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                  pitrou
+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, pitrou
+pickletools         alexandre.vassalotti
+pipes
+pkgutil
+platform            lemburg
+plistlib
+poplib
+posix
+pprint              fdrake
+pstats
+pty
+pwd
+py_compile
+pybench             lemburg, pitrou
+pyclbr
+pydoc
+queue
+quopri
+random              rhettinger
+re                  effbot (inactive), pitrou
+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            benjamin.peterson
+sys
+syslog
+tabnanny            tim_one
+tarfile             lars.gustaebel
+telnetlib
+tempfile
+termios
+test
+textwrap
+threading
+time                brett.cannon
+timeit
+tkinter             gpolo
+token               georg.brandl
+tokenize
+trace
+traceback           georg.brandl
+tty
+turtle              gregorlingl
+types
+unicodedata         loewis, lemburg, ezio.melotti
+unittest            michael.foord
+urllib              orsenthil
+uu
+uuid
+warnings            brett.cannon
+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/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, loewis
+mathematics         mark.dickinson, eric.smith, lemburg
+memory management   tim_one, lemburg
+networking
+packaging           tarek, lemburg
+py3 transition      benjamin.peterson
+release management  tarek, lemburg, benjamin.peterson, barry, loewis,
+                    gvanrossum, anthonybaxter
+str.format          eric.smith
+time and dates      lemburg
+testing             michael.foord, pitrou
+threads
+tracker
+unicode             lemburg
+version control
+windows
+==================  ===========