On Oct 31, 2013, at 4:32 AM, anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Noah Kantrowitz <n...@coderanger.net> wrote: >> Please stop submitting pull requests. Development on the existing codebase >> is halted except for critical fixes or security issues. You are making extra >> work for people on this list and it will not be tolerated. Please consider >> this your final warning. > > I can't live as long as you are to see the new incantation of Python > website (by PyCon 2013) or PyPI. I am willing to help, and this stuff > you're saying is rather discouraging and like "no, go waste your time > somewhere else, we are not giving any code reviews for free". I > understand that my reputation precedes me, but can we keep this > strictly technical? > > What I am trying to do is to send small, incremental fixes. They don't > affect security. I can commit it directly to avoid distracting > overloaded PyPI (bus factor 2) team, and you can blame me for breaking > things - ok, and ban if I break something - that's also ok. If learn > previous PyPI and new PyPI, I can tell people more about it, and you > can expect more pull requests - not from me, for new PyPI, once it is > ready. > > And if I am going to submit any new features, like reST validation on > edit and Markdown support - the code will be more decoupled than > existing one to be almost directly reused for the new site. > > > Why I am skeptical that new site will replace old one soon? Just > because I don't believe in rewrites by one man army. When you develop > public resource, you need to rely on external feedback. You also need > some designer guy in a team. You also need a backlog for > collaboration. My ETA for new PyPI is no earlier than PyCon 2014 if > Donald and Richard will be working on it full time. So, instead of > all-or-nothing scenario I can try to find some help with incremental > approach. Your opinion is noted, however my statement stands and as I said, your continued derailment and disruption will not be tolerated. Thank you for your input. --Noah
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