Bug#573745: Please decide on Python interpreter packages maintainership
* Stefano Zacchiroli (leader@debian.org) [120428 10:45]:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:20:33PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > This does, to me, raise the question of whether Jakub should be listed as
> > a separate option, or whether there's no meaningful distinction between a
> > maintenance team formed by Jakub and a maintenance team formed by Matthias
> > and Barry. I suppose they're distinct in the sense that the tech-ctte
> > could decide that Matthias should not have a position of authority over
> > the package at all, but that doesn't seem particularly sensible to me in
> > that it's rather difficult for us to make it stick going forward while
> > still appointing someone who doesn't think that Matthias should be
> > replaced.
> >
> > (Also, why is Jakub listed as a separate option but not Barry?)
>
> Good point, that is a indeed an incoherence among the listed options.
>
> I've not listed Barry as a separate option after having verified that he
> does not support removing Matthias as a maintainer. For the very same
> reason, I shouldn't probably have listed Jakub, but I wanted to pass on
> the information of him volunteering anyhow, in case it might be
> useful.
If neither Barry nor Jakub would support removing Matthias as a
maintainer, would there be the possiblity of both of them joining the
maintainer team? (Barry, Jakub, Matthias: comments on that are
appreciated - after all, if the goal is to have a maintainer team, it
can only work if it works for you.)
Andi
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