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Re: intend to hijack sqlalchemy package



Gustavo Franco (stratus@debian.org):
> Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:46:18PM +0200, Piotr Ozarowski wrote:
> >> What I intend to do:
> >> * upload (NMU) 0.1.4-1.1 (new python policy update)
> >> * wait for Tommi's approval and upload (another NMU) 0.2.2-0.1
> >> * if I will get permission, adopt sqlalchemy and maintain it as a part of
> >>   Debian Python Modules Team (I'm DPMT member)
> > 
> > If you only adopt if you have permission (which you seem to imply here),
> > this is not a hijack, and hence not controversial at all. It's only a
> > hijack if you change maintainer without any permission from the previous
> > maintainer -- for now, I'd suggest to indeed NMU and keep your offer to
> > adopt open and wait and see.
> 
> I think it's worth to point out that the maintainer has 2 RC bugs[0] reported
> against packages that he's maintaining (not python-sqlalchemy) and are more than
> 90 days old.
> 
> I don't know when and if he entered vacation really, but if nobody NMU some others
> packages, the RC bug list will raise to 10 after python 2.4 transition. Probably,
> it isn't gonna happen, because Debian Python Modules Team is already sending patches
> or NMUing packages[1].
> 
> Btw, it seems that Piotr meant "if tommi don't reply in a reasonable time is it
> ok to hijack and not adopt the package?".

yes, thats what I intend to do
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-=[     Piotr Ozarowski     ]=-
-=[ http://www.ozarowski.pl ]=-

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