Re: [python-committers] Eric Araujo (merwok) as Distutils commiter

2010-07-27 Thread Antoine Pitrou
> I too, am for MaL's suggestion that we give Eric privs, and see how it > goes before signing off on him being the long-term maintainer, but I > am a strong -100 on allowing distutils to fall back to the way things > were. We need more people assigned/associated/feeling ownership of > stdlib modu

Re: [python-committers] Eric Araujo (merwok) as Distutils commiter

2010-07-27 Thread Jesse Noller
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > On 27 Jul, 2010, at 16:24, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > >> Le mardi 27 juillet 2010 à 07:15 -0700, Guido van Rossum a écrit : >>> Well like it or not Tarek is not going to do it. So who will? You, or >>> a new volunteer? >> >> Well, we don't

Re: [python-committers] Eric Araujo (merwok) as Distutils commiter

2010-07-27 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 27 Jul, 2010, at 16:24, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le mardi 27 juillet 2010 à 07:15 -0700, Guido van Rossum a écrit : >> Well like it or not Tarek is not going to do it. So who will? You, or >> a new volunteer? > > Well, we don't even know if Éric actually volunteers for maintaining > distutils

Re: [python-committers] Eric Araujo (merwok) as Distutils commiter

2010-07-27 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le mardi 27 juillet 2010 à 07:15 -0700, Guido van Rossum a écrit : >> Well like it or not Tarek is not going to do it. So who will? You, or >> a new volunteer? > > Well, we don't even know if Éric actually volunteers for maintaining > distut

Re: [python-committers] Eric Araujo (merwok) as Distutils commiter

2010-07-27 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le mardi 27 juillet 2010 à 07:15 -0700, Guido van Rossum a écrit : >> Well like it or not Tarek is not going to do it. So who will? You, or >> a new volunteer? > > Well, we don't even know if Éric actually volunteers for maintaining > distut

Re: [python-committers] Eric Araujo (merwok) as Distutils commiter

2010-07-27 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le mardi 27 juillet 2010 à 07:15 -0700, Guido van Rossum a écrit : > Well like it or not Tarek is not going to do it. So who will? You, or > a new volunteer? Well, we don't even know if Éric actually volunteers for maintaining distutils. Otherwise the module will just rot as Tarek said, until dis

Re: [python-committers] Eric Araujo (merwok) as Distutils commiter

2010-07-27 Thread Guido van Rossum
Well like it or not Tarek is not going to do it. So who will? You, or a new volunteer? --Guido (on Android) On Jul 27, 2010 5:58 AM, "Antoine Pitrou" wrote: > >> So long as Eric is prepared to commit to our standard procedures >> (discussion and patches on issues before commit and general cautio

Re: [python-committers] Eric Araujo (merwok) as Distutils commiter

2010-07-27 Thread Michael Foord
On 27/07/2010 13:56, Antoine Pitrou wrote: So long as Eric is prepared to commit to our standard procedures (discussion and patches on issues before commit and general caution and regard for backwards compatibility) I would like to see him given commit rights under the watchful eye of Tarek a

Re: [python-committers] Eric Araujo (merwok) as Distutils commiter

2010-07-27 Thread Antoine Pitrou
> So long as Eric is prepared to commit to our standard procedures > (discussion and patches on issues before commit and general caution and > regard for backwards compatibility) I would like to see him given commit > rights under the watchful eye of Tarek and those who review checkins. We > c

Re: [python-committers] Eric Araujo (merwok) as Distutils commiter

2010-07-27 Thread Michael Foord
On 27/07/2010 12:40, Senthil Kumaran wrote: Hi Tarek, On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:36:12PM +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote: Depending on your definition of core, none. He works on Distutils2 and helps me (and other) in the tracker. I support Antoine here. The core may not just mean the CPytho

Re: [python-committers] Eric Araujo (merwok) as Distutils commiter

2010-07-27 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:00 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: ... > I think there's a difference in granting commit access to the > repo and taking over maintenance of a huge stdlib package. > > The first is easy to grant. The second requires more support from > the developer community to be successful. W

Re: [python-committers] Eric Araujo (merwok) as Distutils commiter

2010-07-27 Thread Senthil Kumaran
Hi Tarek, On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:36:12PM +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > Depending on your definition of core, none. He works on Distutils2 and > helps me (and other) in the tracker. I support Antoine here. The core may not just mean the CPython interpreter, but the stdlib module too. Simple pat

Re: [python-committers] Eric Araujo (merwok) as Distutils commiter

2010-07-27 Thread Michael Foord
On 27/07/2010 12:00, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Le mardi 27 juillet 2010 à 01:50 +0200, Tarek Ziadé a écrit : Hello, I don't want to maintain Distutils anymore for various reasons. I will focus for now on on Distutils2,

Re: [python-committers] Eric Araujo (merwok) as Distutils commiter

2010-07-27 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Tarek Ziadé wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> Le mardi 27 juillet 2010 à 01:50 +0200, Tarek Ziadé a écrit : >>> Hello, >>> >>> I don't want to maintain Distutils anymore for various reasons. I >>> will focus for now on on Distutils2, shutil and sysconfig. >>> >>>

Re: [python-committers] Eric Araujo (merwok) as Distutils commiter

2010-07-27 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le mardi 27 juillet 2010 à 01:50 +0200, Tarek Ziadé a écrit : >> Hello, >> >> I don't want to maintain Distutils anymore for various reasons.  I >> will focus for now on on Distutils2, shutil and sysconfig. >> >> I would like to propose Eri

Re: [python-committers] Eric Araujo (merwok) as Distutils commiter

2010-07-27 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le mardi 27 juillet 2010 à 01:50 +0200, Tarek Ziadé a écrit : > Hello, > > I don't want to maintain Distutils anymore for various reasons. I > will focus for now on on Distutils2, shutil and sysconfig. > > I would like to propose Eric (merwok on IRC) as a commiter to work on > Distutils. He has