On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Scott Kitterman <deb...@kitterman.com> wrote: > > I'm not aware of any ongoing work. I would be willing to help work on such > a thing, but we currently lack a good mechanism for developing/approving > such a policy.
With clear policy and precise goal you won't need approving mechanism to see if they work for defined set of cases or not. While everybody want policy just to know how to do thing properly, there are in fact very few people who really understand how complicated is the task of maintaining python code, modules and applications. When there is precise goal, next action is to collect scenarios for the whole install/update/remove lifecycle of Python code in Debian. Only after this step is complete it is possible to start drafting self-explanatory architecture that will be capable to support all these scenarios. There is no need in mechanism for developing a policy - in wiki everybody can start contributing immediately with a full history of changes. There can be a sprint though to force the progress and keep work focused. To make it easier to contribute scenarios a template can come handy. I've edited http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPython to be concise introduction into the problems with Python code packaging, summarized issues with the current policy, but still can't provide vision for a new policy. That's why I'd like to see http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPython/Tutorial with step-by-step instructions and explanations of the reasons why things should be done in some particular way, what problems arise if they won't done as requested, and how it makes maintenance easier. There can be a series of tutorials starting with most basic packaging scenario (one module) and gradually move to most complicated (application with several C-modules installed in virtualenv). There is a difference in Scenario and Tutorial in that Tutorial is based on some policy draft while Scenario concentrates on a very-very source of the problem. I.e. scenario is "As a user, I want some stable version of that Python module to be present for my scripts in my Debian installation" or "As an admin, I want to install Trac in isolated environment and upgrade it separately as security fixes are coming out". -- anatoly t. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
