[DPMT] radical changes: automation, carrot and stick

2015-10-01 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
I think that the main problem of our team is that we have over 300 members and only few people contribute to packages they didn't inject to the repo (some people do not care even about those). Here are some ideas on how to change that: * team only in Uploaders field, the main contact (AKA Maintain

Re: I've been removed from the Python team

2015-10-01 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, October 01, 2015 02:11:29 PM Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Oct 01, 2015, at 07:47 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > >I am a bit worried that the team is handled behind closed walls. > > I have no particular interest in either grabbing power nor in taking power > away from anybody, but I think th

Re: admins elections

2015-10-01 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 1 October 2015 at 19:44, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > > [Barry Warsaw, 2015-10-01] > > Team members can have more of a say --and more confidence in-- how the team > > is > > run. If you elect someone to a leadership role, you're giving your support > > to > > them to make the tough decisions. A

Searching for a roundup sponsor

2015-10-01 Thread Kai Storbeck
Hi, Roundup 1.4.20-1.1 is still the version in stable. Roundup 1.5 was released a few years back, and I need someone to help me with the final stages in getting 1.5 in stretch, or getting it removed. Roundup is a python web application with quite some vendored code (javascript libs and fonts)

admins elections

2015-10-01 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Barry Warsaw, 2015-10-01] > Team members can have more of a say --and more confidence in-- how the team is > run. If you elect someone to a leadership role, you're giving your support to > them to make the tough decisions. And you have the option of voting them out > at the next election. +1 --

Re: I've been removed from the Python team

2015-10-01 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > Does it make sense to have some lightweight rules for the team? Is there > precedence within other Debian teams? please, there's already enough bureaucracy. we have team admins, that all we need -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixha

Re: I've been removed from the Python team

2015-10-01 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 01, 2015, at 07:47 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: >I am a bit worried that the team is handled behind closed walls. I have no particular interest in either grabbing power nor in taking power away from anybody, but I think there may be some value in making team governance more transparent and de

Re: I've been removed from the Python team

2015-10-01 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 30 septembre 2015 21:41 +0200, Thomas Goirand  : > Piotr decided to remove me from the Python team. Those who don't agree > (especially admins) please voice your concern. It is my view that this > is an over reaction and that it should be reverted. I am a bit worried that the team is handled b

Re: I've been removed from the Python team

2015-10-01 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
On jeu. 01 oct. 2015 à 08:09:51, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Pierre-Elliott Bécue, 2015-10-01] > > Even if I'm not in the team and thus I do not decide of anything, I > > wonder if that's an appropriate answer, regarding the initial trouble. > > > > We are currently talking about preventing Thomas t

RFP: python-peewee - a small, expressive orm

2015-10-01 Thread Onur Aslan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-peewee Version : 2.6.4 Upstream Author : Charles Leifer * URL : https://github.com/coleifer/peewee * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : a small, expressive orm Long description