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Re: Bug#573745: Initial draft of resolution of the Python Maintainer question



On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 03:30:23PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > You can actually check out the sources pretty easily using
> > debcheckout, and as bzr is a distributed VCS, you don't really need a
> > launchpad account to contribute to it. But I think these sorts of
> > details should be worked out between Matthias and any potential
> > co-maintainers he decides to add and work with.

> The goal would be making it possible for other contributors to push to
> the main repo.  With the current one as a personal repo, its not
> possible for others to do anything other than branch, and propose
> changes.  Again, it would be a suggestion (not a directive) to steer
> the maintainer toward a more collaborative approach, thus bettering
> the current situation.

This is not a suggestion that I support.  The mechanics of a shared
repository are something to be sorted out *after* establishing a maintenance
team with comaintainers, not before.

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