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

2010-08-03 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org wrote: On Jul 28, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: If it's just the maintainer issue concerning people, perhaps think of it as Tarek deputising to Eric - and I think we should allow active maintainers of modules to deputise

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

2010-08-03 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le mardi 03 août 2010 à 11:15 -0400, Fred Drake a écrit : On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: So if everyone agrees Eric gets commit access, and works with me on Distutils, and I stay the official maintainer +1 Let me point out something fishy: “Fred

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

2010-08-03 Thread Jesse Noller
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Fred Drake fdr...@acm.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: So if everyone agrees Eric gets commit access, and works with me on Distutils, and I stay the official maintainer +1   -Fred +1 as well

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

2010-08-03 Thread Fred Drake
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: Let me point out something fishy: “Fred Drake” is almost an anagram of “Tarek Ziadé”. Shhh! Nobody's supposed to know that F is spelled qZ on my birth certificate!   -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr.    fdrake at gmail.com

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

2010-08-03 Thread Tarek Ziadé
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Michael Foord mich...@voidspace.org.uk wrote: On 03/08/2010 16:23, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Le mardi 03 août 2010 à 11:15 -0400, Fred Drake a écrit : On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: So if everyone agrees Eric gets

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

2010-08-03 Thread Michael Foord
On 03/08/2010 16:54, Tarek Ziadé wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Michael Foordmich...@voidspace.org.uk wrote: On 03/08/2010 16:23, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Le mardi 03 août 2010 à 11:15 -0400, Fred Drake a écrit : On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Tarek Ziadéziade.ta...@gmail.com

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

2010-08-03 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Michael Foord mich...@voidspace.org.uk wrote: Barry Warsaw is Wary Bra Wars, whilst Steve Holden is Eleventh Sod. Mark Dickinson is Kid Conman Risk, whilst Raymond Hettinger is A Trendy Mothering. Hmm.. the alter egos of our Python super heroes needs work I

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

2010-07-28 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: 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

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

2010-07-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jul 28, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: If it's just the maintainer issue concerning people, perhaps think of it as Tarek deputising to Eric - and I think we should allow active maintainers of modules to deputise people that *they* trust to do a good job. Excellent way to put in Nick.

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 done

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 solip...@pitrou.net 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

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 solip...@pitrou.net 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 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 Pitrousolip...@pitrou.net 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

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 m...@egenix.com 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

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 could

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

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 solip...@pitrou.net wrote: So long as Eric is prepared to commit to our standard procedures (discussion and patches on issues before commit and

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

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 solip...@pitrou.net 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

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 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 modules,

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

2010-07-26 Thread Tarek Ziadé
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 done a great work in triaging the bugs and also has now a pretty good

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

2010-07-26 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com wrote: .. I would like to propose Eric (merwok on IRC) as a commiter to work on Distutils. +1 ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org