Hi, On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 15:59 +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote: > William Pitcock wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 12:30 +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Ondrej Certik <ondrej@certik.cz> wrote: > >>> There are many good DD's around the "Python Applications Packaging > >>> Team" and the "Debian Python Modules Team", because generally, > >>> this is a Python program, so they may help with many python related issues. > >> Any news on this? Do you agree with me importing to package to > >> Python Applications Packaging Team (PAPT) and changing it's maintainer to PAPT? > >> > >> Ondrej > > > > I disagree because mercurial is a very specific tool, and needs to be > > maintained by people who care about mercurial specifically. But if that > > is what Vincent wants to do, then that's fine. > > I'm already in the perl teams and, even if I did not know about the PAPT, I > think it is similar. I mean that I think that even if the package is maintained > within a team, specific work about one package will be done by the few members > that care about it. > The PAPT will be add value when python transitions occurs or similar 'global' > event in the python world. > > This is why I asked to be added in the PAPT. Piotr Ożarowski just added me > in this alioth project and I plan to upload the current version of mercurial > in the SVN today or tomorrow. > > If it happens that someone willing to work on mercurial packaging (such as > William Pitcock) were denied the access to the PAPT on the ground that they > do not do other python work, I will reconsider my decision and move mercurial > elsewhere (probably in the collab-maint alioth project). But until evidence of > that, I consider that PAPT admins are quite reasonable and that hosting mercurial > in the PAPT alioth project will add a little more value that in the collab-maint > project. > And, to answer to a private suggestion, I do not think at all that creating a > specific alioth project for mercurial is interesting : there already exist > several uptream ML to discuss development, an upstream BTS, several upstream > repo, ... So I do not see any benefice to create a new alioth project. PAPT is indeed fine if that's the way you want to go. I'll bounce over to IRC and ask that my account is added. William
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