List of package ideas for anyone who wants to become a package maintainer

[audreyfeldroy]

A common complaint is: I want to try creating a package, but I don't have any ideas for what it should be about.

I think providing a list of ideas would help a lot of women take the next step toward becoming a package maintainer, especially if they don't want to go the traditional route of working their way up a FOSS project with patches/PRs and convincing the project leads that they should be considered for the core dev team.

This list could include ideas like:

• Create a library that wraps the subprocess module and makes it more usable.
• Write a pure Python YAML parser. Since the YAML spec is huge, consider implementing a defined subset of YAML like eYAML or cYAML

and other interesting unsolved or partially-solved problems that would make for great packages.

@willingc do you think this list would fit in anywhere in this project, or should it be something separate?

[willingc]

@audreyr Totally what I have in mind to fit in this project. As far as I'm concerned this repo is a blank canvas. Push to it as you would like. I'll likely make a CPython folder in it for CPython specific stuff but I'm very excited about the maintainer side of things.

[audreyfeldroy]

Sounds good. Thanks for stubbing out the starting structure. I'll work on adding this and will follow your patterns as the project evolves.

[willingc]

Feel free to rename any directory. I'm assuming you have push privileges to the repo.