Bug#573745: python maintainance: next steps

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Le mercredi 12 mai 2010 à 23:28 +0200, Andreas Barth a écrit :
> > > I don't want to loose Matthias contributions to python
> > > within Debian and the python community.
> > 
> > This is completely irrelevant, unless Matthias threatened to stop
> > contributing unless he can keep setting the rules. But I know the CTTE
> > wouldn’t take such “don’t touch my garden” blackmail into account, of
> > course.
> 
> I would expect that deciding to remove him from being maintainer would
> demotivate him - at least that would be a natural thing to happen.

This line of reasoning is fallacious. I could reverse it and talk about
people who are demotivated because they feel the current maintainer is
incompetent. How could this help guiding the decision?

> > It means giving a veto power to Matthias about who can or cannot
> > contribute, while not giving this power to others.
> 
> Eh, where does that proposal give Matthias veto power?

If Matthias can refuse someone to be part of the core team because he
doesn’t trust that person, that’s a veto power.

Cheers,
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