Hi Piotr, Thanks for your comments. On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 09:46:16PM +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > * Ask Barry to join Matthias (and Matthias to accept Barry) as > interpreter packages maintainer¹ (pythonX.Y packages) This is a reasonable proposal; I think it would be a great win to have Barry as comaintainer of these packages if the two of them were willing. > and encourage both of them to find someone who cares about Debian first > (so without @ubuntu.com or @canonical.com email address) This, OTOH, is an altogether arbitrary requirement that plays into the hands of those repeating the tired old canard that being an Ubuntu developer is a conflict of interest for Debian package maintenance. I think the python packages ought to have more than two comaintainers, and there are any number of folks with no Ubuntu affiliation who might join the team - you yourself would be a prime candidate, IMHO. And there is some advantage to having comaintainers who aren't all going to be busy at the same time because of common work committments. But I won't dignify the absurd claims that Ubuntu or Canonical somehow *want* Ubuntu to be ahead of Debian on python. Speaking with my own Ubuntu hat on, I assure you that it's been nothing but pain for everyone involved. > * Give python-defaults, python3-defaults, python-central and > setuptools/distribute packages to a team chosen by CTTE and accepted by > bug submitters. If they will choose to include me, the first thing I > will propose to do after releasing Squeeze will be a RM request of > python-central with all packages converted to dh_python2 or > python-support if it will make sense² (I'd prefer to convert all > python-support based packages to dh_python2 as well) How do you define "bug submitters" for this purpose? Do you intend the TC to poll anyone who's filed bug reports against these packages in the specified period to ask for their feedback on the bug reporting experience? Why do you believe it necessary to change the maintainership of the python-central package to accomplish a transition to dh_python2? It was my understanding that Matthias is already on board with deprecating python-central in favor of dh_python2, in which case there doesn't seem to be any reason for the TC to intervene. Furthermore, it would be contrary to Debian best practices to remove python-central from the archive while it still had reverse-dependencies in the archive; so surely changing the maintainership of python-central is neither necessary nor sufficient to expedite its deprecation? The python-defaults and python3-defaults packages already have a maintainer team, and you're a member. Is this inadequate for these packages? In what way? If the current maintenance team for these packages is wrong, who do *you*, as a current co-maintainer, think should be on that team? Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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