Re: Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

2010-07-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org writes: On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 05:22, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: I agree with the statement that maintainers of those packages need to be active in these discussions and be clear about what their requirements are and not block other work that's going on

Bug#573745: Things have changed significantly for the better

2010-07-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 05 Jul 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: * Give python-defaults, python3-defaults, python-central and setuptools/distribute packages to a team chosen by CTTE and accepted by bug submitters. If they will choose to include me, the first thing I will propose to do after releasing

Bug#573745: Things have changed significantly for the better

2010-07-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Sandro Tosi (mo...@debian.org) [100705 23:28]: On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 21:46, Piotr Ożarowski pi...@debian.org wrote: Here's my proposal: * Ask Barry to join Matthias (and Matthias to accept Barry) as adding Barry (if he accepts, of course) to the maints of python would be a huge

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: Things have changed significantly for the better

2010-07-06 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Sandro Tosi, 2010-07-05] On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 21:46, Piotr Ożarowski pi...@debian.org wrote:  interpreter packages maintainer¹ (pythonX.Y packages) and encourage  both of them to find someone who cares about Debian first (so without �...@ubuntu.com or @canonical.com email address) - make

Bug#573745: Things have changed significantly for the better

2010-07-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 07/06/2010 12:04 PM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: [Steve Langasek, 2010-07-06] I think the python packages ought to have more than two comaintainers, and there are any number of folks with no Ubuntu affiliation who might join the team - you yourself would be a prime candidate, IMHO. I don't

Bug#573745: Things have changed significantly for the better

2010-07-06 Thread Clint Adams
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 02:39:58PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: If people had asked to have me fired from a job I was doing (in Debian or elsewhere), you can be certain that sitting down and having a nice chat with them would be very low on my priority list. I would focus my attention on

Re: Bug#573745: Things have changed significantly for the better

2010-07-06 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 12:55:28PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Matthias (Ubuntu/Debian maintainer), Barry (upstream), and one pure Debian developer is not enough? How many maintainers would be enough? I would not count Matthias too much here, he has proven that he disappears from doing

Bug#573745: Things have changed significantly for the better

2010-07-06 Thread Luca Falavigna
[ Disclaimer: Random bits from my brain only ] Il 05/07/2010 19.45, Scott Kitterman ha scritto: Other than the question of when to make the initial upload of a new version of the Python interpreter to Unstable, most of the issues at the core of this request have to do with maintenance of

Bug#573745: Things have changed significantly for the better

2010-07-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Luca Falavigna (dktrkr...@debian.org) [100706 18:09]: [...] I'm agreeing to most things you said. Things are moving, and this is good. There are several things to be discussed and implemented before we can claim Python issue solved. I believe Scott and Piotr are great guys with strong

Re: Bug#587886: future of maintaining of the bootloader LILO

2010-07-06 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Joachim Wiedorn ad_deb...@joonet.de wrote on 2010-07-05 17:46: If nobody want to do maintaining the lilo package I could do it and I would do it. My proposal: From my side I believe I could work together with Matt Arnold. I see the following cases: A) Matt Arnold as Maintainer, myself as

Bug#587886: future of maintaining of the bootloader LILO

2010-07-06 Thread Matt Arnold
On 07/06/2010 05:48 PM, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: Joachim Wiedorn ad_deb...@joonet.de wrote on 2010-07-05 17:46: If nobody want to do maintaining the lilo package I could do it and I would do it. My proposal: From my side I believe I could work together with Matt Arnold. I see the