On Mar 28, 2013, at 7:28 PM, PJ Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <ja...@jacobian.org> wrote: >> C'mon, folks, we're arguing about a name. That's about as close to >> literal bikeshedding as we could get. > > I'm not arguing about the *name*. I just don't see the point in > making everybody subscribe to a new list and change their mail filters > (and update every book and webpage out there that mentions the > distutils-sig), because a few people want to *change* the name -- a > change that AFAICT doesn't actually provide any tangible benefit to > anybody whatsoever. > > >> How about we just let whoever has the keys make the change in whatever way's >> easiest and most logical for them? > > Because it's not up to just the person with the keys. Neither SIG is > a mere mailing list, it's a Python special interest group, and SIGs > have their own formation and termination processes. > > In particular, if you're going to start a new SIG, one of the > requirements to be met is "in particular, no other SIG nor the general > Python newsgroup is already more suitable" (per the Python SIG > Creation Guidelines). It's hard to argue that distutils-sig isn't > already more suitable than whatever is being proposed to take its > place.
A requirement for a SIG is also that it has a clear goal and a start and end date. distutils-sig's goal is the distutils module. And the "end date" requirements seems to be completely ignored anymore so arguing strict adherence to the rules seems to be a wash. I suggested packaging-sig because discussion jumps back and forth between distutils-sig and catalog-sig and neither name nor stated goal really reflected what the sig was actually about which was packaging in python in general. I also suggested packaging because it matched the other current sigs which are generic topics and not about a single module. But whatever, I hate the pointless duplication and just want to kill the overlap. ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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