Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-05-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 09:32:33AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org wrote: I wonder if the core issue at hand here is simply that the python VCSs are on a resource writable by only one person (meaning no one else can contribute)?

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-05-13 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 09:32:33AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org wrote: I wonder if the core issue at hand here is simply that the python VCSs are on a

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-05-12 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello Michael, On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Michael Gilbert mgilb...@debian.org wrote: I wonder if the core issue at hand here is simply that the python VCSs are on a resource writable by only one person (meaning no one else can contribute)?  See:

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-05-11 Thread Michael Gilbert
I wonder if the core issue at hand here is simply that the python VCSs are on a resource writable by only one person (meaning no one else can contribute)? See: https://code.launchpad.net/~doko/python/pkg2.7-debian https://code.launchpad.net/~doko/python/pkg3.2-debian If that's the case, then

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-04-29 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 21:36, Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: * Russ Allbery r...@debian.org, 2012-04-27, 20:20: Stefano Zacchiroli lea...@debian.org writes: [...] Considering the potential incompatibilities, it seems that the possible maintenance teams boil down to: - a maintenance

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-04-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:20:33PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: This does, to me, raise the question of whether Jakub should be listed as a separate option, or whether there's no meaningful distinction between a maintenance team formed by Jakub and a maintenance team formed by Matthias and

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-04-28 Thread Andreas Barth
* Stefano Zacchiroli (lea...@debian.org) [120428 10:45]: On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:20:33PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: This does, to me, raise the question of whether Jakub should be listed as a separate option, or whether there's no meaningful distinction between a maintenance team formed

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-04-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 01:00:16PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: If neither Barry nor Jakub would support removing Matthias as a maintainer, would there be the possiblity of both of them joining the maintainer team? (Barry, Jakub, Matthias: comments on that are appreciated - after all, if the

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-04-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Apr 28, 2012, at 04:34 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Barry is fine in joining the current team, Jakub is not. (Of course they can provide different indications here, but that's my understanding of the situation at the time of last interactions with them.) I would be fine joining a team with

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-04-28 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org, 2012-04-27, 20:20: Stefano Zacchiroli lea...@debian.org writes: [...] Considering the potential incompatibilities, it seems that the possible maintenance teams boil down to: - a maintenance team formed by Sandro - a maintenance team formed by Matthias and

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-04-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:20:33PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Considering the potential incompatibilities, it seems that the possible maintenance teams boil down to: - a maintenance team formed by Sandro - a maintenance team formed by Matthias and Barry - a maintenance team formed by

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-04-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 02:46:58PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Stefano Zacchiroli lea...@debian.org writes: If the Technical Committee welcome that, I'll be happy to take the burden of verifying (publicly, and on -python) who would be willing, at present, to be part of an alternative Python

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-04-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli lea...@debian.org writes: Not having heard other options, I've proceed with the verification mentioned above. Everything has happened publicly and is hence available for your review starting from [1]. My own conclusions on the potential teams, based on that thread have

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-04-09 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello Russ, On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 05:57, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: I would like this to not slip back into limbo again, since it's clear that the problem is neither going to go away nor is provoking any substantively new discussion.  I think we should take some time to craft a

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-04-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org writes: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 05:57, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: I would like this to not slip back into limbo again, since it's clear that the problem is neither going to go away nor is provoking any substantively new discussion.  I think we should take

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-03-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli lea...@debian.org writes: On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 09:57:02PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: D. The Technical Committee exercises our power under 6.1.2 of the Constitution to designate: - Luca Falavigna dktrkr...@debian.org - Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org -

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-03-19 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [120319 06:00]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573745#335 B. The Technical Committee have been petitioned to decide on the maintainership of the python packes. We agree with the substance of the complaint, but do not feel able to

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-03-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Barth a...@ayous.org writes: How about: BC. The Technical Committee have been petitioned to decide on the maintainership of the python packes. We agree with the substance of the complaint, but do not feel able to directly select the replacement maintainers. Therefore:

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-03-19 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [120319 22:27]: Andreas Barth a...@ayous.org writes: How about: BC. The Technical Committee have been petitioned to decide on the maintainership of the python packes. We agree with the substance of the complaint, but do not feel able to

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-03-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Andreas Barth a...@ayous.org writes: You think it's worse than just orphan the package now and/or ask the DPL to choose a new maintainer? (I would say it's the least agressive one of the variants that do require a change of the maintainer, as Matthias has some say of the new maintainer team

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-03-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Okay, this isn't going to make anyone happy, but here goes. I don't think anything new is happening with this bug, and while I've argued in the past that keeping things like this open for a while to see what happens can be useful, I think we've long passed the point of that here. We need to not

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2012-03-13 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 14:56, Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org wrote: ping 2-years-old ping -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2011-11-22 Thread Sandro Tosi
ping -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2010-07-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Sandro Tosi (mo...@debian.org) [100706 00:24]: Ok, probably I didn't express myself clearly enough. you are talking about the future, when python will have co-maintainers (python*-default already has them), am I correct? I was referring instead to the current situation where python*-default

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2010-07-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [100706 08:02]: This is a community, cooperative project. That means that getting along with fellow developers *is actual work*, and is as important in some cases as the technical work expressed in the packages that we upload. It's even worse: Within the

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2010-07-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Sandro Tosi writes (Re: Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership): Also, an additional level of management has to be well received from who has to be managed: are we really sure Matthias will follow even controversial decisions (so in opposition to some of his

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2010-07-05 Thread Andreas Barth
* Ian Jackson (ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk) [100705 15:02]: I wrote: I don't think we are considering adding an additional layer of management. Currently the person in charge is Matthias; he is the maintainer of python2.6 et al.[1] Plus Scott Kitterman and Piotr Ożarowski. We

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2010-07-05 Thread Andreas Barth
* Ian Jackson (ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk) [100705 19:13]: Andreas Barth writes (Re: Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership): * Ian Jackson (ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk) [100705 15:02]: I wrote: I don't think we are considering adding

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2010-06-28 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello, I'm going to reply to some of the more recent emails of this thread: please consider this as a personal reply, not meant to represent the feelings/ideas of other original signers of this appeal. On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 23:28, Andreas Barth a...@not.so.argh.org wrote: * Josselin Mouette

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2010-03-31 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
Hi, As shown clearly in the past years, Python cannot be maintained by a single developer, so I do think it should be maintain within a team to allow fixes and new versions of upstream Python to be pushed quickly. Therefore, I strongly second Sandro proposition. Regards, Arnaud

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2010-03-24 Thread Andreas Barth
* Bdale Garbee (bd...@gag.com) [100318 00:00]: It bothers me that what you've brought to the TC is a rant about your frustrations culminating in a request to remove someone else from their role, rather than a crisper articulation of what's wrong and a plan that explains how we should move

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2010-03-22 Thread Luca Falavigna
Hello, we apologize for the delay in our reply. On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 23:50, Bdale Garbee bd...@gag.com wrote: On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:24:51 +0100, Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org wrote: Package: tech-ctte Severity: normal Hello Technical Committee, we'd like you to decide about how the

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2010-03-18 Thread Andreas Barth
* Bdale Garbee (bd...@gag.com) [100318 00:00]: I'm adding the DPL to this reply because it seems possible that the only way to achieve this objective might be an in-person Debian Python Summit meeting, moderated by members of the TC, where we can work through all the issues and come to

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2010-03-18 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Andreas Barth 2010-03-18] I agree. I tried to get one such meeting done some time ago (see below) Here's my reply from that thread (Matthias or DPL never responsed, or at least I wasn't in the loop) [Piotr Ożarowski, 2009-09-27] Adding Raphael Hertzog to Cc as he knows the beginning of

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2010-03-18 Thread Andreas Barth
* Piotr Ożarowski (pi...@debian.org) [100318 21:09]: [Andreas Barth 2010-03-18] I agree. I tried to get one such meeting done some time ago (see below) Here's my reply from that thread (Matthias or DPL never responsed, or at least I wasn't in the loop) The DPL was only in the loop for

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2010-03-17 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:24:51 +0100, Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org wrote: Package: tech-ctte Severity: normal Hello Technical Committee, we'd like you to decide about how the Python interpreter packages should be maintained in Debian. I've spent several hours since my last message

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2010-03-13 Thread Sandro Tosi
Package: tech-ctte Severity: normal Hello Technical Committee, we'd like you to decide about how the Python interpreter packages should be maintained in Debian. The problems that we have with the current situation can mostly be described by having a look at the way the Python 2.6 transition is

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2010-03-13 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:24:51 +0100, Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org wrote: Package: tech-ctte Severity: normal Hello Technical Committee, we'd like you to decide about how the Python interpreter packages should be maintained in Debian. Thank you for bringing this to the Committee's attention.

Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2010-03-13 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hello, thanks for the fast reply. On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 21:02, Bdale Garbee bd...@gag.com wrote: On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:24:51 +0100, Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org wrote: Package: tech-ctte Severity: normal Hello Technical Committee, we'd like you to decide about how the Python interpreter