Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > I'm actually happy to hear that there's this much energy available -- > hopefully some of it can be harnessed towards positive solutions. > > When I began developing setuptools, I often asked for the input of > packagers, developers, etc., through the distutils-sig... and was met > with overwhelming silence. So the fact that there is now a group of > people who are ready to work for some solutions seems like a positive > change, to me.
I can appreciate how frustrating silence is when you call for input. Let's see if we can keep the volunteer energy going this time around. > It's hard to make design decisions regarding itches you don't personally > have, and which other people won't help scratch. Unfortunately, a lot > of the proposals from packaging system people have been of the form of, > "fix this for us by breaking things for other people". Not all of them, > though. Many have been very helpful, contributing troubleshooting help > and good patches. > > That some of those good patches took nearly a year to get into > setuptools (some from Fedora just got into 0.6c8 that were sent to me > almost a year ago) is because I'm the only person reviewing setuptools > patches, and I've spent only a few days in the last year doing focused > development work on setuptools (as opposed to answering questions about > it on the SIG). > > It's never a good thing when people's patches sit around, regardless of > where they come from. But that's not the same thing as *rejecting* the > patches. I and others appreciate your call for more patches on various topics. However a long delay in applying them will discourage contribution. Are you open to giving certain others patch view/commit privileges to setuptools? I'd be willing to help out, and keep a carefully balanced hand in what is accepted. -Jeff _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com