Barry Warsaw writes: > On Jan 18, 2009, at 11:47 AM, s...@pobox.com wrote: > > > I'm going to stop pretending I'm contributing anything to python-mode > > development.
Heh. In my book, just making an announcement that you're definitely going to be inactive in the future is a contribution! If anyone would like to step forward and maintain the XEmacs package version of python-modes, please speak up on the XEmacs development list <xemacs-b...@xemacs.org>. Note that it is nominally an open-post list, but non-members are moderated and may experience lags of up to a couple of days for moderation. The duties are moderate, IMO. They basically amount to keeping a workspace of python-modes in order, following the xemacs-beta and python-modes lists for discussion of your modes, and making commits, all stuff you would do anyway, except for the actual commits. The actual management of package infrastructure and making package releases (for XEmacs) is handled by the XEmacs Dev Team (specifically Norbert Koch), so you're free of all that kind of thing. This is something that somebody who is not an advanced Lisp hacker but wants to make a substantial contribution to the community can do well. > > I not too long ago synced the latest python-mode into the XEmacs > > chain so that should be up-to-date, Well, thanks for the recent sync, and the updates on both the status of the code and your maintainership! We really appreciate your work. I've checked that the python-mode addresses at xemacs.org all were already forwarded to the python-mode list. I've updated various documentation in the package and around the package tree, and will try to get to the website shortly. I don't see a need to revoke your commit privilege to the package. If you make an improvement you think should be committed, and the normal patch review process seems to be really taking its time (unfortunately we have few reviewers active currently), probably nobody will mind if you use your Maintainer Emeritus status to make the commit. (Do check that there's no current maintainer, though.) > > but I'm sure with the current thrust to see where python.el and > > python-mode.el can be merged there will be changes to be made > > there in the near future. I haven't seen much of that on xemacs-beta, so I presume that has come from the GNU Emacs side. You may want to let the emacs-de...@gnu.org denizens know of your change in status. > Don't underestimate your contributions Skip, or our/my appreciation of > it! I totally understand the need to move on though. Again, thanks! Speaking of folks that move on, in the process of checking on mail aliases for the package I noticed that a certain bwar...@python.org was receiving mail for supercite. Fixed (but you're always welcome back in your copious free time, Barry!) Steve _______________________________________________ Python-mode mailing list Python-mode@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-mode
