Re: Python Policy
On October 19, 2015 1:31:37 PM EDT, Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> wrote:
>So we currently have several places where we have team policy
>described.
>
>* The Debian wiki
> https://wiki.debian.org/Python and subpages
>
>* Another wiki page:
> https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/PythonModulesTeam
>
>* https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/
>which comes from the python-defaults (*not* python3-defaults!) in the
>bzr
> repo at
> http://alioth.debian.org/anonscm/bzr/pkg-python/python-defaults-debian
>
>* "PMPT" policy
> http://python-modules.alioth.debian.org/
> git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/python-modules/tools/python-modules.git
>except that that page specifically isn't represented in the git repo,
>only
> policy.rst
>
>and maybe more. This is crazy! We really need to consolidate all this
>information.
>
>That said, I did a pass through policy.rst in the git repo above and
>pushed
>the 'git-policy' branch for review. `git diff master` to see the
>proposed
>changes. Here's a summary:
>
>* PMPT -> DPMT - it seems like we mostly refer to ourselves as Debian
>Python
>Modules Team and rarely if ever Python Modules Packaging Team any more.
> Another opportunity for more consistency.
>
>* Clarified slightly the wording in policy differences between
> team-in-Maintainer and team-in-Uploaders.
>
>* Remove all the references to Subversion and add a short blurb about
>Git,
> pointing to the GitPackaging wiki page.
>
>Cheers,
>-Barry
That looks good. The actual Python policy needs to remain separate. That's something intended for the entire archive and not just the team.
Scott K
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