Hi Brian,
I'm assuming this is about your work with sshuttle. Thanks a lot for
that, btw!
On 2015-12-07 14:49, Graeme Cross wrote:
Brian,
It would be worth asking them if they can do a parallel install of a
more recent Python version; for example, via Fedora EPEL or Rackspace's
IUS:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
https://ius.io/
There are plenty of good instructions on the web on how to do this for
RHEL 5.
Then again, the reporter may be maintaining mission critical systems
that can't be touched.
I've now read the issue and the patch, and I think the reporter knows
well
enough how to maintain his own patchset for his own servers, and could
install
any Python version if he wanted. His interest is in publishing his
patches.
https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle/pull/37/files
* Redhat is paid to support RHEL; however this project is run entirely
by one unpaid volunteer.
* The patch adds complexity for all versions of Python, including
Python 3.5
* Thankyou for your contribution, however I am not interested in
applying
it at this time.
I think this is a good answer. There's a lot of discussion about how to
make
open source work sustainable emotionally as well as technically and
economically,
and the answer is "have boundaries". Yours seem to me perfectly good.
However, there may be a different compromise that is both low-commitment
but high-potential:
You can offer the patch poster advertising space on the main project's
README, if he wants to maintain his own python2.4-compatible fork
indefinitely. Something like: "sshuttle does not support Python 2.4
compatiblity, but viera's sshuttle-oldpy fork does. Buyer beware etc.".
- If he takes the offer, you might wait a couple of revisions to see how
good he is at keeping up and merging upstream, and then consider whether
you want to offer him co-maintainership in the main project. Win/win!
- Or you may just want to continue the statu quo where you maintain the
main project and he maintains a legacy support fork. No hassles!
- Or, if he doesn't take the offer and/or abandons his fork, you can
simply not link or stop linking. Nothing lost!
Thanks again for maintaining sshuttle! Mighty useful thing!
J
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