On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:35 PM, P.J. Eby<[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > However, AFAIK, nobody qualified for the job of setuptools maintainer > actually *wants* the position, myself included. (This is not to say that > such qualified persons do not exist, I'm just saying that I don't know of > them at the moment.) > > But lack of qualified volunteers is not me "preventing" anyone doing > anything. Obviously, I am not "preventing" anyone from forking it.
I don't buy that anymore. If you want to be a dictator you have to be present in the maintenance of the code. You're not anymore present, now you are acting and talking like an old despot that don't want to see his kingdom taken over by the people ;) More seriously, if you think people like me or Hanno are not qualified enough to fix dumb-stupid bugs like the svn 1.6 compatibility stuff, or do releases, that's your problem. Also, you spend enough time in the mailing lists to be able to drive us to do the "right" things, so, I don't buy what you are saying about being "blessed" (being Ian or Jim). No offense, but I wouldn't bless *you* in any of my projects with you anti-PEP 8 coding style ;) But anyway, let the fork be, I trust all these "unqualified" people that are part of it. Most of them have released many big large-scale applications and are very good. Cheers Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
