Bug#573745: Things have changed significantly for the better
[Sandro Tosi, 2010-07-05]
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 21:46, Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> wrote:
> > interpreter packages maintainer¹ (pythonX.Y packages) and encourage
> > both of them to find someone who cares about Debian first (so without
> > @ubuntu.com or @canonical.com email address) - make it an requirement
> > if bug submitters or CTTE will not be happy 3 months after releasing
> > Squeeze (i.e. when 2.7 transition should be in advanced stage),
>
> ...but it's not enough. Python is a delicate "beast" that I think it
> requires a group of people. (and again, as a personal idea, only
> accepting people which doko is fine with will reduce a lot the
> candidates, for sure a huge part of the most skilled ones, guess why.)
Matthias (Ubuntu/Debian maintainer), Barry (upstream), and one pure
Debian developer is not enough? How many maintainers would be enough?
> > Yes, I do realize that it's not possible to have a working Python
> > without these two teams co-operating... and that's the point!
> > If it will not work, we can ask CTTE for a decision about specific
> > problems (like 2.7 upload to unstable, adding a 2.7 to
> > supported, adding/dropping a patch in interpreter package, adding a
> > feature in helper tool(s), etc.)
>
> ehm, I think that's exactly what the CTTE wants to avoid: being asked
> of any decisions like this; instead, if I got it right, they want to
> find a self-sustainable solution, that will work out by itself without
> a continue appeal to CTTE.
I'm sure they will react if we'll annoy them too many times ;-P
(and I think all these example problems can be resolved with few emails
to debian-python@, if not, then CTTE will have something to start with.
The point is to have all the problems raised soon and resolved fast)
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