Bug#573745: ping

2011-03-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 11:55:06AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I think, and have for some time, that the ideal situation would be a maintenance team that includes Matthias (assuming that Matthias still cares deeply about the Python packaging and wants to continue to participate). If such a

Bug#573745: ping

2011-03-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Stefano Zacchiroli writes (Bug#573745: ping): Let's assume for a moment (very hypothetically!) that a team can be found which both includes the current maintainer and has rough consensus on -python. Would the CTTE be willing to establish such a team as Python interpreter maintainers, even

Bug#573745: ping

2011-03-05 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 22:58, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: I would vote against this. can you swear your NACK is completely unrelated to the fact you're a collegue of Matthias in Canonical/Linaro/whatever-umbrella-company-is-now? What I think it's important, is to understand if, and

Bug#573745: ping

2011-03-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org writes: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 22:58, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: I would vote against this. can you swear your NACK is completely unrelated to the fact you're a collegue of Matthias in Canonical/Linaro/whatever-umbrella-company-is-now? What I think

Bug#573745: ping

2011-03-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Bernat ber...@debian.org writes: Wow. Almost nobody uses python-central because python-support has a friendly maintainer that helps people asking questions. Reversing the situation seems quite biaised. For example, python-central does not clean up old pyc files and there are

Bug#573745: ping

2011-03-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli lea...@debian.org writes: If the CTTE agrees, I will proceed as follow. I will propose, at my discretion, a maintenance team that I hope could be accepted by all involved parties. I'll ask for extra volunteers and for (motivated) objections, trying to mediate in the

Bug#573745: ping

2011-03-05 Thread Steve Langasek
Sandro, On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 12:18:46PM +, Sandro Tosi wrote: On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 22:58, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: I would vote against this. can you swear your NACK is completely unrelated to the fact you're a collegue of Matthias in

Bug#573745: ping

2011-03-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:57:17AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: As ~2 more months have passed without a comment, I can't do any better than pinging the CTTE again, AOL-ing the text above (especially the last paragraph). As the decision is fully in the hands of the CTTE, I don't see any

Bug#573745: ping

2011-03-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Stefano Zacchiroli writes (Bug#573745: ping): 2 more months have passed, ... time for another ping :-) I have to say I'm very disappointed that we haven't managed to do a better job of this. We need to find a way to make this decision which does not become irretrievably blocked. AIUI

Bug#573745: ping

2011-03-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:33:27AM +, Ian Jackson wrote: AIUI at the moment the blocking problem is that we don't have a suitable new team. The selection of the new team is not something the ctte is any good at, and selecting maintainers by private email exchanges is bad anyway because

Bug#573745: ping

2011-01-04 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi Don others, On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 05:58, Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 09:16:32PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: All that said, one of the few remaining actions I can take on this issue is to friendly ping

Bug#573745: ping

2011-01-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 26 Dec 2010, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 09:16:32PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: All that said, one of the few remaining actions I can take on this issue is to friendly ping the tech-ctte to actually decide on this issue, open for 7 months now. I do think

Bug#573745: ping

2010-12-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 09:16:32PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: All that said, one of the few remaining actions I can take on this issue is to friendly ping the tech-ctte to actually decide on this issue, open for 7 months now. I do think tech-ctte is a very useful device in Debian and I

Bug#573745: ping

2010-11-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Dear Technical Committee members, as you might imagine I got asked fairly often what is the status of this issue. I've always made clear that any issue brought to the tech-ctte is no DPL matter; the Constitution is very clear about that. The only thing I could have done to help out a bit is