Re: Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership
Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 23:50, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
>> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
>>
>>> I'm disturbed by the tone of some of the recent traffic which seems to
>>> imply that Matthias must either personally respond to people's e-mail
>>> or be completely removed from any role with the Python packages in
>>> order for this complaint to be satisfied.
> well, prior than 9 months ago, he was the only one maintainer the whole
> python stack in debian, so yes, I'd except a personal reply from him
> when a python discussion is run on debian-python@l.d.o or highlight on
> IRC; but that didn't happened so often, decreasing by time.
Yes, but that's about what you expected then, when he was the sole
maintainer. I think there's general agreement in the discussion here that
Python should have some co-maintainers.
My point is that, *given the addition of co-maintainers* (which I agree
would be important), if Matthias then wants to go heads-down on his
technical work and not engage in some or all of the debates, I'm not sure
that poses an ongoing problem provided that his co-maintainers do the
other work required to maintain the packages and he doesn't stand in their
way. And if that's the case, I don't think the requirement that he either
reply or stop being on the maintenance team is well-defended.
There has been a lot of long-term bickering and heated words over Python
in Debian, and from what I've seen that's spilled over into debian-devel,
I'm very reluctant to put the weight of that problem on one party.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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