Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-03-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Jeroen, Am Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 08:48:33PM +0100 schrieb Jeroen Ploemen: > ... Julian had sensibly commented on this and had added interesting questions I'm keen on hearing your answers. > As for the inclusion of codes of conduct or similar wording, > documenting common sense just feels unnec

Please delete two empty salsa repositories

2024-03-02 Thread Julian Gilbey
Hello, Please could someone with the required permissions delete the following two empty salsa repositories; due to an upstream reorganisation of the package, they will no longer be needed, and will instead be part of the rapidfuzz package: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/jarowinkle

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-03-02 Thread Scott Kitterman
On March 2, 2024 8:29:47 PM UTC, Andreas Tille wrote: >Hi Jeroen, > >Am Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 08:48:33PM +0100 schrieb Jeroen Ploemen: >> ... > >Julian had sensibly commented on this and had added interesting >questions I'm keen on hearing your answers. > >> As for the inclusion of codes of cond

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-03-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Am Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 09:11:52PM + schrieb Scott Kitterman: > > It's possible I am misunderstanding you here (languages are hard even when > they are your first), but if I am not, I think you are not really seeing > things from the correct perspective. I'm probably biased since involved i

Re: Bug#1065042: O: mpl-sphinx-theme -- documentation for the mpl-sphinx-theme Python library

2024-03-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Am Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 02:06:25PM -0800 schrieb Vagrant Cascadian: > On 2024-02-29, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > I intend to orphan the mpl-sphinx-theme package. > > > > The package description is: > > This is the official Sphinx theme for Matplotlib documentation. It > > extends the > > pydata-sphi

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-03-02 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Andreas, On 2024-02-27 09:05, Andreas Tille wrote: > Since I consider the current situation as demotivating for newcomers > as well as long standing contributors I would like to suggest to drop > this "weak statement of collaboration" option from policy. I've attached > an according patch to t

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-03-02 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi again, On 2024-03-02 23:11, Andreas Tille wrote: > I'm curious why you believe I didn't care. I likely would have reverted > my change if I didn't have more urgent matters to attend to. > Re-uploading a package just to revert the Maintainer and Uploader is > lower on my priority list than fixin

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-03-02 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Christian (2024.03.02_22:09:29_+) > Some packages are complex, some packages have lots of reverse > dependencies. Where these two circles overlap, a careless "drive-by" > maintainer can do a lot of harm. Maybe we should look at ways we can improve this situation, without having to have pack

Re: Please delete two empty salsa repositories

2024-03-02 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Julian (2024.03.02_20:52:04_+) > Please could someone with the required permissions delete the > following two empty salsa repositories Deleted. Stefano -- Stefano Rivera http://tumbleweed.org.za/ +1 415 683 3272

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-03-02 Thread Emmanuel Arias
On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 09:05:44AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I became more deeply involved into DPT since 2022 as a consequence of > the suggestion for transfering several Debian Med/Science packages to > DPMT[1][2]. I happily followed this suggestion and moved >30 packages > from the

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-03-02 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Stefano, I need to retract my previous mail. Ironically, it was based on a careless misread of the proposed policy change diff. On 2024-03-03 00:07, Stefano Rivera wrote: > Now that we have Salsa with Merge Requests, it's hard for me to see much > benefit from having packages in the team with

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-03-02 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2024-03-02 23:09, Christian Kastner wrote: > I think moving DPT to Maintainers is a good idea. Additionally, I agree that having DPT in Uploaders is pointless, and welcome the prposed policy change. > I think removing Uploaders is a terrible one. Apologies, I retract this part as it was not s

Re: Suggesting change in DPT policy

2024-03-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Christian, Am Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 11:48:57PM +0100 schrieb Christian Kastner: > On 2024-03-02 23:11, Andreas Tille wrote: > > I'm curious why you believe I didn't care. I likely would have reverted > > my change if I didn't have more urgent matters to attend to. > > Re-uploading a package just