Re: Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:15:43AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > I was under the impression that the ‘#debian-python’ channel was a > resource for use equally by anyone for discussion of maintaining Python > packages in Debian. When did it become an in-group-versus-out-group club > house, with credent

Re: Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-29 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 14:15, Ben Finney wrote: > Sandro Tosi writes: > >> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 03:08, Ben Finney wrote: >> > Tristan Seligmann writes: >> > >> >> Are you even in the channel? >> > >> > Often, yes. >> >> Let the people (sponsoree & sponsors) who use that "tracker" decide >>

Re: Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-29 Thread Ben Finney
Sandro Tosi writes: > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 03:08, Ben Finney wrote: > > Tristan Seligmann writes: > > > >> Are you even in the channel? > > > > Often, yes. > > Let the people (sponsoree & sponsors) who use that "tracker" decide > what to use for it (you decided to not maintain your packages

Re: Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-29 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 03:08, Ben Finney wrote: > Tristan Seligmann writes: > >> Are you even in the channel? > > Often, yes. > >> The topic of the channel seems like a perfectly reasonable place for >> this kind of list, too, so I'm not sure why you object to it so >> strongly. > > I would thin

Re: Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-28 Thread Scott Kitterman
> Elliot Murphy writes: > >> It's rather obnoxious to assume I didn't communicate as an individual >> asking for assistance. When I did that, jwilk told me to add the >> package to the list of packages in the topic waiting to be reviewed, >> as is the standard operating procedure for the DPMT. It'

Re: Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > I would think a separate task tracker would be more appropriate; the > channel topic should remain primarily descriptive of the topic of the > channel, after all. I'd strongly suggest the use of PET (package entropy tracker) written by the Pe

Re: Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-28 Thread Ben Finney
Elliot Murphy writes: > It's rather obnoxious to assume I didn't communicate as an individual > asking for assistance. When I did that, jwilk told me to add the > package to the list of packages in the topic waiting to be reviewed, > as is the standard operating procedure for the DPMT. It's also

Re: Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-28 Thread Ben Finney
Tristan Seligmann writes: > Are you even in the channel? Often, yes. > The topic of the channel seems like a perfectly reasonable place for > this kind of list, too, so I'm not sure why you object to it so > strongly. I would think a separate task tracker would be more appropriate; the channel

Re: Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-28 Thread Tristan Seligmann
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > Elliot Murphy writes: > >> I've added foolscap to the /topic in #debian-python > > That strikes me as a rather obnoxious thing to do. Why change the topic > for the whole channel, rather than just communicating as an individual > asking for ass

Re: Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-28 Thread Elliot Murphy
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > That strikes me as a rather obnoxious thing to do. Why change the topic > for the whole channel, rather than just communicating as an individual > asking for assistance? It's rather obnoxious to assume I didn't communicate as an individual aski

Re: Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-28 Thread Ben Finney
Elliot Murphy writes: > I've added foolscap to the /topic in #debian-python That strikes me as a rather obnoxious thing to do. Why change the topic for the whole channel, rather than just communicating as an individual asking for assistance? > but I didn't know where to say about the testing th

Would like a sponsor to upload the new version of python-foolscap

2010-01-28 Thread Elliot Murphy
Hi! Zooko (the upstream developer) filed #567145 asking for python-foolscap to be updated to the new 0.5.0 release. I have committed a new changelog entry for this, test built and installed a package using svn-buildpackage after running get-orig-source to obtain a correctly modified tarball, and