Sandro Tosi <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 23:50, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: >> Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> I'm disturbed by the tone of some of the recent traffic which seems to >>> imply that Matthias must either personally respond to people's e-mail >>> or be completely removed from any role with the Python packages in >>> order for this complaint to be satisfied.
> well, prior than 9 months ago, he was the only one maintainer the whole > python stack in debian, so yes, I'd except a personal reply from him > when a python discussion is run on [email protected] or highlight on > IRC; but that didn't happened so often, decreasing by time. Yes, but that's about what you expected then, when he was the sole maintainer. I think there's general agreement in the discussion here that Python should have some co-maintainers. My point is that, *given the addition of co-maintainers* (which I agree would be important), if Matthias then wants to go heads-down on his technical work and not engage in some or all of the debates, I'm not sure that poses an ongoing problem provided that his co-maintainers do the other work required to maintain the packages and he doesn't stand in their way. And if that's the case, I don't think the requirement that he either reply or stop being on the maintenance team is well-defended. There has been a lot of long-term bickering and heated words over Python in Debian, and from what I've seen that's spilled over into debian-devel, I'm very reluctant to put the weight of that problem on one party. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
