On 07/06/2010 10:27 AM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Sandro Tosi, 2010-07-05] >> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 21:46, Piotr Ożarowski <pi...@debian.org> wrote: >>> interpreter packages maintainer¹ (pythonX.Y packages) and encourage >>> both of them to find someone who cares about Debian first (so without >>> @ubuntu.com or @canonical.com email address) - make it an requirement >>> if bug submitters or CTTE will not be happy 3 months after releasing >>> Squeeze (i.e. when 2.7 transition should be in advanced stage), >> >> ...but it's not enough. Python is a delicate "beast" that I think it >> requires a group of people. (and again, as a personal idea, only >> accepting people which doko is fine with will reduce a lot the >> candidates, for sure a huge part of the most skilled ones, guess why.) > > Matthias (Ubuntu/Debian maintainer), Barry (upstream), and one pure > Debian developer is not enough? How many maintainers would be enough?
I would not count Matthias too much here, he has proven that he disappears from doing stuff in Debian. I'd suggest to have two pure Debian developers, at least for the time until Barry is one. > >>> Yes, I do realize that it's not possible to have a working Python >>> without these two teams co-operating... and that's the point! >>> If it will not work, we can ask CTTE for a decision about specific >>> problems (like 2.7 upload to unstable, adding a 2.7 to >>> supported, adding/dropping a patch in interpreter package, adding a >>> feature in helper tool(s), etc.) >> >> ehm, I think that's exactly what the CTTE wants to avoid: being asked >> of any decisions like this; instead, if I got it right, they want to >> find a self-sustainable solution, that will work out by itself without >> a continue appeal to CTTE. > > I'm sure they will react if we'll annoy them too many times ;-P > (and I think all these example problems can be resolved with few emails > to debian-python@, if not, then CTTE will have something to start with. > The point is to have all the problems raised soon and resolved fast) -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: 06C8 C9A2 EAAD E37E 5B2C BE93 067A AD04 C93B FF79 ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c330ba0.2080...@bzed.de