On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Chris Withers <ch...@simplistix.co.uk> wrote: > Tarek Ziadé wrote: >> >> I have taken the commitment to lead these tasks and synchronize the people >> that are willing to help on this. > > Good, I'm one of those people,
Great ! > sadly my only help may be to ask "how is this > bit going to be done?". I'll work on the wiki this week end for that > >> The tasks discussed so far are: >> >> - version definition (http://wiki.python.org/moin/DistutilsVersionFight) >> - egg.info standardification (PEP 376) >> - metadata enhancement (rewrite PEP 345) >> - static metadata definition work (*) > > These all seem to be a subset of the last one, right? Sorry I used "task" I should have used "topics". We are trying to have a list of well-defined, isolated tasks. Theses tasks are built upon the discussions we have in these topics. The last topic (static metadata) might generate new tasks and/or complete existing tasks. >> - PyPI mirroring (PEP 381) > > I don't see why PyPI isn't just ported to GAE with an S3 data storage bit > and be done with it... Offline mirrors for people behind firewalls already > have solutions out there... GAE+S3 is just an implementation imho. We still need a mirroring protocol ala CPAN and features in client softwares to use them. (as defined in 381) > >> Each one of this task has a leader, except the one with (*). I just got >> back >> from travelling, and I will reorganize >> http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils asap to it is up-to-date. > > Cool, is this the focal point to track your activities? Exactly. And Distutils-SIG is the mailing list to discuss in ;) > >> If you want to work on one of this task or feel there's a new task you can >> start, please, join Distutils SIG or contact me, > > Well, I think my "big list" breaks down roughly as tasks, of which I think > the stuff you're already doing will hopefully take care of the first 2, but > what about the rest. If labour shortage is all that's stopping this, then > let me know ;-) > Please discuss these new points in Distutils-SIG Cheers Tarek _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
