Great post, Tarek. Following good old newsgroups/FIDOnet tradition it could be nice to see this transformed to Rules/FAQ document that will be reposted automatically here by a robot about once a month.
Without such documents your proposal will be weakly supported, because people will still have questions, and you will need to answer them reasonably to eliminate the source of conflict for making collaboration moving into the right direction (which you also need to define). 1. Why the rules? > From time to time this mailing list is getting very unpleasant to work > in because some old disagreements, and because some people are > starting to get really nasty. 2. What are those 'disagreements' people can agree upon? 3. "Python <= 2.7 contains Distutils" - is there anything wrong with that? 4. "Distutils is frozen, and won't evolve anymore" - mmm, ahem.. well.. ok. 5. But you know - I am somewhat familiar with distutils code - it is much easier for me to continue patching it than start using something that will only appear in some distant 3k Python I have no desire to play with now. I need to solve real world problems and these are all with Python 2.x 6. Why Distribute forks Setuptools? It is said `for various reasons`, but I can't get it. > There's no need to send a mail here, because this is done. > If you send a mail here expect things become nasty. 7. But I want to know! > No you don't. 8. Nooooo. I want! > See. It is already starting.. 9. But I want to know it. :-( > Make sure to read the archives first, to understand why it was done. 10. Maan, that's too long, pydotorg archives suxx - may I have a summary? > Well, does anybody want to post recent Shakespeare script here? 11. It is said that people may disagree that Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora are using Distribute? But why?? 12. BTW, is Setuptools still alive? 13. What are those Distribute, Setuptools and Distutils2 anyway? After this FAQ it would be really nice to see editable draft of Roadmap/Status document that people can get for an overview of the current state and choose the tasks they feel most important for further collaboration. P.S. http://groups.google.com/group/the-fellowship-of-the-packaging is more international than http://groups.google.fr/group/the-fellowship-of-the-packaging -- anatoly t. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
