Re: Bug#573745: ping

2011-03-11 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [110305 20:57]: The problem that I have with the curent situation is that kicking Matthias to the curb seems to be a requirement for a resolution, and that makes me really uncomfortable. I'm not, to note, saying I'm flatly opposed to that, just that it makes

Re: Bug#573745: ping

2011-03-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 12:56:34PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Do you mean that you would get a *private* ack from the current maintainer, but no public one? But as long as we have the current maintainer's agreement (in whatever form), this concern is null. I didn't mean to imply that I can

Re: Bug#573745: ping

2011-03-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes (Re: Bug#573745: ping): Do you mean that you would get a *private* ack from the current maintainer, but no public one? I am assuming that we are likely to get no ack at all. As commented in my previous mail, I don't believe that a maintenance *team* can be formed

Re: Bug#573745: ping

2011-03-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:48:37PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Additionally, as DPL, I'm worried by seeing packages as important as the Python interpreters maintained by a single person. Even if all other surrounding issues were not there, that would be a bus-factor problem worth fixing

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

2011-03-04 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

2011-01-03 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