On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 12:08:51AM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 23:34, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 02:02:29PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > >> 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. > > This suggests a form of default judgement, penalizing one party for "failing > > to appear" before the TC. However, the stated duties of a maintainer don't > > include defending one's maintenance practices before the TC; while it makes > > our work harder to adjudicate without the maintainer's input, I'm not > > willing to make a political statement like this with my TC vote. > > Furthermore, among those who've had indirect personal conversations with > > Matthias is Bdale, a member of the TC; and the only members of the TC who > > have cc:ed Matthias in this discussion have been Bdale and Andi. If further > > comment is required from Matthias, I don't think enough has been done to > > make this clear to him. > Mh, even if I think he is informed of the appeal, and if he wanted to > reply he could have done already , I'll take the blame for not cc-ing > Matthias in all the reply I send complaining for his lack of comments, > so I'm trying to rectify it now. > Matthias, I've just added explicitly added in the loop of this CTTE > latest branch of discussion: may you please summarize here your > position, maybe also discussion some of the several points arose > during the discussion? Sorry if I wasn't clear; I meant that if /the TC/ requires /specific/ input from Matthias, that they should ask him for it directly. I don't think it's reasonable to require Matthias to give a general response to a broad-ranging attack on his maintainership of the Python packages as input to the TC's decisionmaking process. -- 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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