Benevolent

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
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+Benevolent Dictator
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 `Kenneth Reitz <http://kennethreitz.org>`_ 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 <http://semver.org>`_. 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.
+Requests uses `Semantic Versioning <http://semver.org>`_. 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.
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+Standard Library?
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+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.
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+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.
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+Requests just reached v1.0.0. This huge milestone marks a major step in the right direction.
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+Linux Distro Packages
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+Distributions for Requests have been made for many Linux distributions, including: Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, and Arch.
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+These distributions are often aggressive forks. They are discouraged and not supported.