From 1960c3c29d09e45a13851ea49f883f461e89797a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kenneth Reitz Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 02:25:59 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Benevolent --- docs/dev/philosophy.rst | 22 +++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/dev/philosophy.rst b/docs/dev/philosophy.rst index a740221..1fbd9c6 100644 --- a/docs/dev/philosophy.rst +++ b/docs/dev/philosophy.rst @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ Development Philosophy Requests is an open but opinionated library, created by an open but opinionated developer. -Benevolent Dictator for Life -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Benevolent Dictator +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ `Kenneth Reitz `_ is the BDFL. He has final say in any decision related to Requests. @@ -22,4 +22,20 @@ Semantic Versioning For many years, the open source community has been plagued with version number dystonia. Numbers vary so greatly from project to project, they are practically meaningless. -Requests uses `Semantic Versioning `_. This specification seeks to put an end to this madness with a small set of practical guidelines for you and your colleagues to use in your next project. \ No newline at end of file +Requests uses `Semantic Versioning `_. This specification seeks to put an end to this madness with a small set of practical guidelines for you and your colleagues to use in your next project. + +Standard Library? +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Requests has no *active* plans to be included in the standard library. This decision has been discussed at length with Guido as well as numerous core developers. + +Essentially, the standard library is where a library goes to die. It is appropriate for a module to be included when active development is no longer necessary. + +Requests just reached v1.0.0. This huge milestone marks a major step in the right direction. + +Linux Distro Packages +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Distributions for Requests have been made for many Linux distributions, including: Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, and Arch. + +These distributions are often aggressive forks. They are discouraged and not supported. \ No newline at end of file -- 2.7.4