22. Experts Index

Warning

At present, this is not much modified from the CPython base.

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.

22.1. Stdlib

Module	Maintainers
__future__
__main__	gvanrossum, ncoghlan
_dummy_thread	brett.cannon
_thread
_testbuffer	skrah
abc
aifc	r.david.murray
argparse	bethard
array
ast	benjamin.peterson
asynchat	josiahcarlson, giampaolo.rodola*, stutzbach
asyncio	haypo, yselivanov, giampaolo.rodola
asyncore	josiahcarlson, giampaolo.rodola*, stutzbach
atexit
audioop	serhiy.storchaka
base64
bdb
binascii
binhex
bisect	rhettinger
builtins
bz2
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, yselivanov
copy	alexandre.vassalotti
copyreg	alexandre.vassalotti
cProfile
crypt	jafo*
csv	skip.montanaro (inactive)
ctypes	theller (inactive), belopolsky, amaury.forgeotdarc, meador.inge
curses	twouters
datetime	belopolsky
dbm
decimal	facundobatista, rhettinger, mark.dickinson, skrah
difflib	tim.peters (inactive)
dis	ncoghlan, yselivanov
distutils	eric.araujo, dstufft
doctest	tim.peters (inactive)
dummy_threading	brett.cannon
email	barry, r.david.murray*
encodings	lemburg, loewis
ensurepip	ncoghlan, dstufft
enum	eli.bendersky*, barry, ethan.furman*
errno	twouters
exceptions
faulthandler	haypo
fcntl	twouters
filecmp
fileinput
fnmatch
formatter
fpectl	twouters
fractions	mark.dickinson, rhettinger
ftplib	giampaolo.rodola*
functools	ncoghlan, rhettinger
gc
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 (inactive), terry.reedy*, roger.serwy (inactive)
imaplib
imghdr
imp
importlib	brett.cannon
inspect	yselivanov
io	benjamin.peterson, stutzbach
ipaddress	pmoody
itertools	rhettinger
json	bob.ippolito (inactive), ezio.melotti, rhettinger
keyword
lib2to3	benjamin.peterson
libmpdec	skrah
linecache
locale	loewis, lemburg
logging	vinay.sajip
lzma
macpath
mailbox
mailcap
marshal
math	mark.dickinson, rhettinger, stutzbach
memoryview	skrah
mimetypes
mmap	twouters
modulefinder	theller (inactive), jvr
msilib	loewis
msvcrt
multiprocessing	davin*, pitrou, jnoller (inactive), sbt (inactive)
netrc
nis
nntplib
numbers
operator
optparse	aronacher
os	loewis
os.path	serhiy.storchaka
ossaudiodev
parser	benjamin.peterson
pathlib
pdb
pickle	alexandre.vassalotti
pickletools	alexandre.vassalotti
pipes
pkgutil
platform	lemburg
plistlib
poplib	giampaolo.rodola
posix	larry
pprint	fdrake
profile
pstats
pty	twouters*
pwd
py_compile
pybench	lemburg
pyclbr
pydoc
queue	rhettinger
quopri
random	rhettinger, mark.dickinson
re	effbot (inactive), ezio.melotti, serhiy.storchaka
readline	twouters
reprlib
resource	twouters
rlcompleter
runpy	ncoghlan
sched	giampaolo.rodola
select
selectors	neologix, giampaolo.rodola
shelve
shlex
shutil	tarek
signal
site
smtpd	giampaolo.rodola
smtplib
sndhdr
socket
socketserver
spwd
sqlite3	ghaering
ssl	janssen, christian.heimes, dstufft, alex
stat	christian.heimes
statistics	steven.daprano
string
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
termios	twouters
test	ezio.melotti
textwrap
threading
time	belopolsky
timeit
tkinter	gpolo, serhiy.storchaka
token
tokenize	meador.inge
trace	belopolsky
traceback
tracemalloc	haypo
tty	twouters*
turtle	gregorlingl, willingc
types	yselivanov
typing
unicodedata	loewis, lemburg, ezio.melotti
unittest	michael.foord*, ezio.melotti, rbcollins
unittest.mock	michael.foord*
urllib	orsenthil
uu
uuid
venv	vinay.sajip
warnings
wave
weakref	fdrake
webbrowser
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
xml.sax
xml.sax.handler
xml.sax.saxutils
xml.sax.xmlreader
xmlrpc	loewis
zipfile	alanmcintyre, serhiy.storchaka, twouters
zipimport	twouters*
zlib	twouters

22.2. Tools

Tool	Maintainers
Argument Clinic	larry
pybench	lemburg

22.3. Platforms

Platform	Maintainers
AIX	David.Edelsohn
Cygwin	jlt63, stutzbach
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
Mac OS X	ronaldoussoren, ned.deily
NetBSD1
OS2/EMX	aimacintyre
Solaris/OpenIndiana	jcea
Windows	tim.golden, zach.ware, steve.dower, paul.moore
JVM/Java	frank.wierzbicki

22.4. Miscellaneous

Interest Area	Maintainers
algorithms
argument clinic	larry
ast/compiler	ncoghlan, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, yselivanov
autoconf/makefiles	twouters*
bsd
bug tracker	ezio.melotti
buildbots	zach.ware
bytecode	benjamin.peterson, yselivanov
context managers	ncoghlan
coverity scan	christian.heimes, brett.cannon, twouters
cryptography	gregory.p.smith, dstufft
data formats	mark.dickinson
database	lemburg
devguide	ncoghlan, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, willingc
documentation	ezio.melotti, eric.araujo, willingc
GUI
i18n	lemburg, eric.araujo
import machinery	brett.cannon, ncoghlan, eric.snow
io	benjamin.peterson, stutzbach
locale	lemburg, loewis
mathematics	mark.dickinson, eric.smith, lemburg, stutzbach
memory management	tim.peters, lemburg, twouters
networking	giampaolo.rodola,
object model	benjamin.peterson, twouters
packaging	tarek, lemburg, alexis, eric.araujo, dstufft, paul.moore
performance	brett.cannon, haypo, serhiy.storchaka, yselivanov
pip	ncoghlan, dstufft, paul.moore, Marcus.Smith
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, ezio.melotti
test coverage	giampaolo.rodola
threads
time and dates	lemburg, belopolsky
unicode	lemburg, ezio.melotti, haypo, benjamin.peterson,
version control	eric.araujo, ezio.melotti

22.5. Documentation Translations

Translation	Coordinator
French	mdk
Japanese	inada.naoki
Bengali India	kushal.das
Hungarian	gbtami
Portuguese	rougeth