Hi Brian, Thanks for all your work and special thanks for making a stable place for the pykickstart again.
Congratulations for getting this project under your umbrella. We will try to help you with PR reviews and other project related stuff ;). I'm looking forward for our cooperation! Best Regards, Jirka On Thu, 2019-09-05 at 16:28 -0700, Brian C. Lane wrote: > Today we created a new, permanent, location for pykickstart: > > https://github.com/pykickstart/pykickstart/ > > And I've agreed to be the new maintainer. I've been involved with > Anaconda and pykickstart since I joined Red Hat in 2010 so this isn't > a > new experience for me :) > > My general philosophy for this is going to be "don't break it". I > consider pykickstart to be one of the best examples of how to write a > python library, especially one that has to support so many different > features and versions so I have no plans to make fundamental changes. > I > consider it primarily to be in maintenance mode, driven by bugfixing > and > requests from Anaconda. > > Recently there have been some requests to add features to pyks for > the > livecd-creator project that don't have (and never will) support in > Anaconda. I've been trying to come up with a way to make everyone > happy > -- and haven't. > > At the moment I think the best way to proceed is to require that new > features need to have patches, and be accepted by, Anaconda. Anything > else is just going to lead to a fractured user experience, confusing > documentation, difficult to debug problems, etc. Since Anaconda is > the > primary user for pyks it makes practical sense to have the installer > team's input on new features. > > I also will *not* be re-reviewing any old closed requests. If the > previous maintainers declined to add something I am not going to re- > open > it. > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
