Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership
* Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) [120319 22:27]:
> 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.
You think it's worse than just orphan the package now and/or ask the
DPL to choose a new maintainer? (I would say it's the least agressive
one of the variants that do require a change of the maintainer, as
Matthias has some say of the new maintainer team as long as it's a
team but YMMV. Of course, it's not nice. But no of the options is
nice.)
Andi
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