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

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

I wrote:
> I don't think we are considering adding an additional layer of
> management.  Currently the person in charge is Matthias; he is the
> maintainer of python2.6 et al.[1]
> 
> We would hand the maintainership of these packages to the new team.

We still don't have a new team.  The only coherent team that has been
suggested has been the four people who emailed the TC to start with.
As they wrote:
   Luca Falavigna
   Josselin Mouette
   Sandro Tosi
   Bernd Zeimetz
   anyone else willing to help, including of course the current
   maintainer, provided the above points are met.

The existing maintainer has not discussed this matter in public with
us nor made any public comment.  I personally have had no
communication with the existing maintainer.  There have been a few
indirect personal conversations with some people that I know of, but
these have not produced conclusions.

Here is a draft resolution:

  WHEREAS

  1. Python maintenance in Debian has been suffering problems;

  2. We have had no formal response to our enquiries from the existing
     maintainer.

  WE RESOLVE

  3. According to our power in the Debian Constitution to decide who
     should be the maintainer of a package in cases of dispute, the
     maintainership of the Python packages is hereby transferred to
     a new team, consisting initially of the following people:
	   Luca Falavigna
	   Josselin Mouette
	   Sandro Tosi
	   Bernd Zeimetz
     Until the team decides otherwise, any controversial decision
     shall be taken by majority vote.

  4. The new team shall enjoy all the rights, privileges and duties of
     maintainership, including the power to upload, to delegate, hire
     and fire members of the team itself, and define and modify its
     own rules and processes.

  5. We encourage the new maintainers to formally invite the previous
     maintainer to join the team, and to invite other members as they
     feel appropriate.

  6. "The Python packages" means these packages:
	  python
	  python2.5
	  python2.6
	  python3.1
	  distribute
	  python-central
	  python-defaults
	  python-old-doctools
	  python3-defaults

Ian.