On 20 September 2014 08:22, Donald Stufft <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps in Warehouse the procedure can be automated to some degree > and a public record of what actions were taken and when? I don’t mean like > a public log of the actual email address or email content or anything of the > sort. Just like a "attempted to contact on X date", "notified X thing on Y", > "No response in X time, transfering ownership" kind of things. > > Maybe we could create something like python-updates which would be a read > only > mailing list which just posts a thread per request and updates it with the > actions taken and stuff. People who care could subscribe to it without > having > to get all of distutils-sig or wahtever. > > Maybe it could even offer package authors the ability to mark a package as > "Request For Adoption" saying that they have a package that they wrote, but > that they no longer wish to maintain. > > I don't know, I'm just tossing out some potentional ideas!
Yep, for this kind of thing, "automate" can be a better answer than "document" - it's much easier to delegate (or otherwise hand over the reins) when the process is built into the tools. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
