Re: python-xlrd

2013-02-06 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > On 6 February 2013 19:30, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> >> please read our "unwritten policy" about Maintainer field at >> http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/PythonModulesTeam/HowToJoin > > > "As a general rule of thumb, just set Maintainer to the team;

Re: python-xlrd

2013-02-06 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 6 February 2013 19:30, Sandro Tosi wrote: > please read our "unwritten policy" about Maintainer field at > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/PythonModulesTeam/HowToJoin "As a general rule of thumb, just set Maintainer to the team; there might be some exceptions, like in situations where the packa

Re: python-xlrd

2013-02-06 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > I suggest that we encourage packagers to make team maintainership the norm, > and individual maintainership the exception, to avoid this kind of problem. > This is in line with plenty of other open source projects, where people talk > about n

Re: python-xlrd

2013-02-06 Thread Simon McVittie
On 06/02/13 16:12, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > Of course, it's good to exercise due diligence, but the flip > side is that technical changes which I hope would be uncontroversial > have now taken a back seat to bureaucracy, because one man a few years > ago declared himself 'the maintainer'. If the re

Re: python-xlrd

2013-02-06 Thread Elena ``of Valhalla''
On 2013-02-06 at 16:12:21 +, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > No doubt he should have declared his packages orphaned before he left. But > whether he got hit by a bus, or just lost interest in them, I'm not > interested in blaming him. I have e-mailed the MIA team to start the > 2-month process [3] that

Re: python-xlrd

2013-02-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Feb 06, 2013, at 04:12 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: >I suggest that we encourage packagers to make team maintainership the norm, >and individual maintainership the exception, to avoid this kind of problem. >This is in line with plenty of other open source projects, where people >talk about not bec

Re: python-xlrd

2013-02-06 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 6 February 2013 12:52, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Yes I do: Thomas is set as the Maintainer (as opposed to the team > being the Maintainer), so your are more forced to ask Thomas first > given the huge changes you're planning to do: did you contact him (it > doesn't seem so from your email)? have yo

Re: python-xlrd

2013-02-06 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > Does > anyone object to me committing this to the DPMT SVN repository, and seeking > sponsorship for the new version? Yes I do: Thomas is set as the Maintainer (as opposed to the team being the Maintainer), so your are more forced to ask Th