Re: How does team maintenace of python module works?
On Thursday, February 14, 2013 04:53:23 PM Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Feb 14, 2013, at 08:54 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote:
> >I don't think it's a particularly good example, though. Lots of packages
> >continue to use the older helpers, and not due to a lack of time - attempts
> >to move away from the deprecated helpers still seem to meet considerable
> >resistance. That causes problems when newcomers don't want to learn
> >deprecated packaging methods, and aren't allowed to update packages to use
> >the recommended helper.
>
> But as a team we do have only one officially sanctioned helper. The others
> are deprecated. But okay, let's forget about that for now.
>
> >Back on the VCS question, I fear that the 'all or nothing' road will circle
> >back to 'nothing' for a long time. I think that we should allow some
> >packages to live in git without forcing a complete migration, so individual
> >maintainers can use the VCS they're more comfortable with. Most open source
> >programmers have at least a basic familiarity with both, so it shouldn't be
> >such an obstacle to working on other packages.
> >
> >We wouldn't be the only team doing this - Debian Games Team, for example,
> >use both git and svn for packaging:
> >http://wiki.debian.org/Games/VCS
>
> As I said, I am against splitting team packages across different vcses. But
> I'm also not the team BDFL (well, no one is :), so if I'm in the minority
> opinion, so be it.
Not splitting, IIRC, was the one thing that we had pretty solid consensus on
last time. There was considerable divergence about what VCS to not split
over, but I think most people agreed a common repository was something we
wanted.
Scott K
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