On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 11:55:06AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I think, and have for some time, that the ideal situation would be a
> maintenance team that includes Matthias (assuming that Matthias still
> cares deeply about the Python packaging and wants to continue to
> participate). If such a team could be found that would work well, it
> would allow us to continue to make use of Matthias's passion for the work
> while hopefully having a team that can fill in for and make up for the
> shortfalls in skills and abilities of all the members, particularly
> including communication and public planning.
I agree that, if acceptable by the rest of the "Debian Python community"
(whatever that means), the above would be a worthwhile goal.
> I'm not sure delegating the decision is a good idea, but if you (or anyone
> else) could come up with such a team, I think it would be a slam duck
> solution to this, and I doubt there'd be much difficulty in getting CTTE
> approval (assuming that it was even required, since if Matthias is happy
> with the result, there's no need for the CTTE to take formal action).
Fair enough, I'll consider starting myself a discussion about a
potential Python maintenance team on -python. It's still only a
"consider" as the tricky part is that, for various reasons already
mentioned in this bug log, it is unlikely that the current maintainer
will participate in a public discussion which can easily degenerate into
mud throwing. As a consequence of that, I believe it would also be hard
to obtain an explicit ACK from the current maintainers on additional
co-maintainers.
Let's assume for a moment (very hypothetically!) that a team can be
found which both includes the current maintainer and has rough consensus
on -python. Would the CTTE be willing to establish such a team as
Python interpreter maintainers, even in absence of an explicit public
ACK by the current maintainer?
(I duly notice that if the answer to the above is "no", we have evidence
of an easy DOS attack vector that can block this resolution forever.)
Cheers.
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