OK, I'm back and more or less caught up so I'm ready to continue this discussion.
In his initial post in this thread, Jim suggests that he and others want to join the Mailman Coders team on Launchpad in order to commit to the Mailman 2.1 branch there. In a thread on the merge proposal that started this, Jim quotes my conjecture that he wants not only commit permission, but also the ability to make releases and distribute them to the appropriate download locations, and says that's "overkill". He also notes my suggestion that he make a proposal to mailman-ca...@python.org which he has not yet done. [1] I mentioned that previously in this thread [2] and Jim replied that my suggestions were "over the top" [3]. So much for background. Here's my current position. Steve has presented a summary of issues [4] with which I agree. For my part, I have stated that I am willing to continue in my role as Mailman 2.1 release manager and to fix critical bugs and security issues and commit i18n updates, but not implement new features. I am also happy to continue to support Mailman 2.1 users via this list. In fact, I just reported and fixed a bug [5]. However, if third parties are making changes to the code base, I can no longer make signed releases of code that I haven't audited, and this auditing is what I don't want to do. Jim seems to want to be able to make these changes, but seems unwilling to take over as release manager. So, what is the value of these changes if there is never another release? I think that's probably enough for this post. I will try to answer any follow-ups. [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~jks/mailman/hcaptcha/+merge/389691/comments/1024990 [2] https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/message/ADOK7LGWRKNM4EJIZKO6CSIJRWCYS74A/ [3] https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/message/RUZCFKDQAS2AGTPD3GXMCN7B7YBQF245/ [4] https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/message/XCGIWMFWRY63DZOYHJPRCCUYUXBNDK67/ [5] https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/1895451 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/
