Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Andreas Barth <aba@ayous.org> writes:

> How about:

> BC. The Technical Committee have been petitioned to decide on the
>     maintainership of the python packes.  We agree with the substance of
>     the complaint, but do not feel able to directly select the replacement
>     maintainers.  Therefore:
>  
>     We require the current python package manager to hand over the
>     package to a team of at least three maintainers (where he may be
>     one of the maintainers but without veto power) who are actually
>     active within the debian python community. This needs to be done
>     latest 6 weeks after the vote has ended. Failing that, the
>     Tech Ctte exercises our power under 6.1.2 of the Constitution to
>     remove the current maintainer of the Python interpretor packages.
>     It delegates the task of choosing a new maintenance team for the
>     Python packages to the DPL.

I don't have any objections to that in terms of process or the outcomes
I'd expect, although that's rather a hard thing to ask someone to do.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>