.. _experts: .. note:: This list comes unchanged from the `CPython devguide `_. We keep a copy here since it's good for Jython devs to know who they should contact about these areas. Experts 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. 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. .. TODO document automatic assignment/nosy: people need not add them manually 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. Stdlib ------ ==================== ============================================= Module Maintainers ==================== ============================================= __future__ __main__ gvanrossum, ncoghlan _dummy_thread brett.cannon _thread pitrou abc aifc r.david.murray argparse bethard array ast benjamin.peterson asynchat josiahcarlson, giampaolo.rodola*, stutzbach asyncio gvanrossum, haypo, pitrou, yselivanov, giampaolo.rodola asyncore josiahcarlson, giampaolo.rodola*, stutzbach atexit audioop base64 bdb binascii binhex bisect rhettinger builtins bz2 nadeem.vawda calendar rhettinger cgi cgitb chunk cmath mark.dickinson cmd code codecs lemburg, doerwalter codeop collections rhettinger collections.abc rhettinger, stutzbach colorsys compileall concurrent.futures bquinlan configparser lukasz.langa* contextlib ncoghlan* copy alexandre.vassalotti copyreg alexandre.vassalotti cProfile crypt jafo* csv skip.montanaro (inactive) ctypes theller (inactive), belopolsky, amaury.forgeotdarc, meador.inge curses datetime belopolsky dbm decimal facundobatista, rhettinger, mark.dickinson difflib tim.peters (inactive) dis ncoghlan* distutils eric.araujo, dstufft doctest tim.peters (inactive) dummy_threading brett.cannon email barry, r.david.murray* encodings lemburg, loewis enum eli.bendersky*, barry, ethan.furman* 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 christian.heimes, gregory.p.smith heapq rhettinger, stutzbach hmac christian.heimes, gregory.p.smith html ezio.melotti http idlelib kbk, terry.reedy, roger.serwy imaplib imghdr imp importlib brett.cannon inspect yselivanov io pitrou, benjamin.peterson, stutzbach ipaddress pmoody, ncoghlan itertools rhettinger json bob.ippolito (inactive), ezio.melotti, rhettinger, pitrou keyword lib2to3 benjamin.peterson linecache locale loewis, lemburg logging vinay.sajip lzma nadeem.vawda macpath mailbox petri.lehtinen mailcap marshal math mark.dickinson, rhettinger, stutzbach mimetypes mmap modulefinder theller (inactive), jvr msilib loewis msvcrt multiprocessing jnoller, sbt* netrc nis nntplib pitrou numbers operator optparse aronacher os loewis ossaudiodev parser benjamin.peterson pathlib pitrou* pdb georg.brandl* pickle alexandre.vassalotti, pitrou pickletools alexandre.vassalotti pipes pkgutil platform lemburg plistlib poplib giampaolo.rodola posix pprint fdrake profile georg.brandl pstats georg.brandl pty pwd py_compile pybench lemburg, pitrou pyclbr pydoc queue rhettinger quopri random rhettinger, mark.dickinson re effbot (inactive), pitrou, ezio.melotti readline reprlib resource rlcompleter runpy ncoghlan sched giampaolo.rodola select selectors neologix, giampaolo.rodola shelve shlex shutil tarek, hynek signal site smtpd giampaolo.rodola smtplib sndhdr socket pitrou socketserver spwd sqlite3 ghaering ssl janssen, pitrou, giampaolo.rodola, christian.heimes, dstufft stat christian.heimes statistics string georg.brandl* stringprep struct mark.dickinson, meador.inge subprocess astrand (inactive) sunau symbol symtable benjamin.peterson sys sysconfig tarek syslog jafo* tabnanny tim.peters (inactive) tarfile lars.gustaebel telnetlib tempfile georg.brandl, ncoghlan termios test ezio.melotti textwrap georg.brandl threading pitrou time belopolsky timeit georg.brandl tkinter gpolo token georg.brandl tokenize meador.inge trace belopolsky traceback georg.brandl* tty turtle gregorlingl types unicodedata loewis, lemburg, ezio.melotti unittest michael.foord*, ezio.melotti unittest.mock michael.foord* urllib orsenthil uu uuid venv vinay.sajip warnings wave weakref fdrake, pitrou webbrowser georg.brandl winreg stutzbach winsound effbot (inactive) wsgiref pje xdrlib xml.dom xml.dom.minidom xml.dom.pulldom xml.etree effbot (inactive), eli.bendersky*, scoder xml.parsers.expat christian.heimes xml.sax christian.heimes xml.sax.handler xml.sax.saxutils xml.sax.xmlreader xmlrpc loewis zipfile alanmcintyre zipimport zlib nadeem.vawda ==================== ============================================= Tools ----- ================== =========== Tool Maintainers ================== =========== pybench lemburg ================== =========== Platforms --------- =================== =========== Platform Maintainers =================== =========== AIX David.Edelsohn Cygwin jlt63, stutzbach FreeBSD HP-UX Linux Mac OS X ronaldoussoren, ned.deily, hynek NetBSD1 OS2/EMX aimacintyre Solaris/OpenIndiana jcea Windows tim.golden, zach.ware, steve.dower JVM/Java frank.wierzbicki =================== =========== Miscellaneous ------------- ================== =========== Interest Area Maintainers ================== =========== algorithms ast/compiler ncoghlan, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, georg.brandl autoconf/makefiles bsd benchmarks pitrou, brett.cannon bug tracker ezio.melotti buildbots pitrou bytecode benjamin.peterson, pitrou, georg.brandl context managers ncoghlan coverity scan christian.heimes, brett.cannon cryptography christian.heimes, gregory.p.smith, dstufft data formats mark.dickinson, georg.brandl database lemburg devguide ncoghlan, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti documentation georg.brandl, ezio.melotti, eric.araujo GUI i18n lemburg, eric.araujo import machinery brett.cannon, ncoghlan, eric.snow io pitrou, benjamin.peterson, stutzbach, hynek locale lemburg, loewis mathematics mark.dickinson, eric.smith, lemburg, stutzbach memory management tim.peters, lemburg networking giampaolo.rodola, pitrou object model benjamin.peterson packaging tarek, lemburg, alexis, eric.araujo, dstufft py3 transition benjamin.peterson release management tarek, lemburg, benjamin.peterson, barry, loewis, gvanrossum, anthonybaxter, eric.araujo, ned.deily, georg.brandl str.format eric.smith testing michael.foord, pitrou, ezio.melotti test coverage ncoghlan, giampaolo.rodola, christian.heimes threads pitrou time and dates lemburg, belopolsky unicode lemburg, ezio.melotti, haypo, benjamin.peterson, pitrou version control eric.araujo, georg.brandl, ezio.melotti ================== ===========