Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> Le mardi 27 juillet 2010 à 01:50 +0200, Tarek Ziadé a écrit : >>> Hello, >>> >>> I don't want to maintain Distutils anymore for various reasons. I >>> will focus for now on on Distutils2, shutil and sysconfig. >>> >>> I would like to propose Eric (merwok on IRC) as a commiter to work on >>> Distutils. He has done a great work in triaging >>> the bugs and also has now a pretty good knowledge of the Distutils >>> code. He's a GSOC student for distutils2 and >>> has done a great coding work in there. I am pretty sure he would love >>> to do this as I did. >> >> Have any significant code patches by Éric been committed to Python core? > > Depending on your definition of core, none. He works on Distutils2 and > helps me (and other) in the tracker. > >> I may be mistaken in my evaluation, but I'm not sure giving away >> distutils maintenance to an almost complete beginner is a good idea >> (since you are basically suggesting that he *replace* you in distutils >> maintenance). > > I am not sure how you define a complete beginner. As far as Distutils is > concerned, he's not. He's capable of maintaining Distutils, given the patches > he provides for Distutils2 (see http://hg.python.org/distutils2). He's also > now involved in most design discussions, so aware of the various issues. > > Distutils2 is the old Distutils trunk FYI. > > That said, this was just a suggestion to replace me for this maintenance > because > I don't want to do it anymore. Another option is to have you and other core > devs take over the maintenance, but FWIW I think you are less able > than him to maintain Distutils, given his experience in the package, > and the fact > that he work on the next gen. > > Last, I think Guido's thoughts on giving commiter access earlier matches > completely this case. I believe Eric has the qualities to become a > good commiter. > > If the proposal is accepted I'll help him. If you or someone else > rejects it, then > good luck with the 150+ Distutils issues and the various ML fights on the > topic. > > One last option of course would be to let the package rotten, and just > fix critical > bugs when they occur, and wait for distutils2 to take over.
I think there's a difference in granting commit access to the repo and taking over maintenance of a huge stdlib package. The first is easy to grant. The second requires more support from the developer community to be successful. Without knowing how Eric works, I think it's difficult to judge whether he'd be a good maintainer or not. Why not start with giving him commit rights and then see how things work out for a few months. After that we could then assign the maintenance to Eric. FWIW: I think you've done a great job at maintaining distutils and I'd like to thank you for that. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Jul 27 2010) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers