On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 4:19 AM, Glyph <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
> > > On Jan 29, 2015, at 12:05 PM, Clayton Daley <clayton.da...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Unless Twisted loves the idea of hosting this, it might make more sense to > start a TxCommons (like https://github.com/ZF-Commons). This shifts the > emphasis away from the Twisted and onto the Commons, including: > > - The lower (or lack of) "core support" commitment. The Commons can > still highlight "supported" projects (by the commons or outside > organizations), but it's more transparent about the status relative to > core. > - A significantly lower participation/contribution barrier that isn't > interrelated with the politics (and justifiably high standards) of core. > - A central place to find Tx libraries that actively welcomes new > additions. > - My twisted-pyro and twisted-mandrill are so-so examples of what I > mean. If they were a little more mature, it'd be better for someone to > find and improve these libraries than start over from scratch. > - More importantly, users would know that the project won't > fragment if I'm not proactively maintaining it. They can always become > an > active participant in the Commons and move business along. Obviously, I > relinquish that control if and when I contribute it (or the commons > establishes an official fork). > > Clayton Daley > > > So, I don't mind the idea of Twisted hosting it for now, but you make a > good point. The Twisted org on Github is presently hosting quite a few > things, with varying degrees of association with various subsets of the > core developers. > > Since ldaptor already moved to this org, I think we should probably just > move this as well, and then move things *out* later once we have > established a Commons org and figured out how we want to administer it. > > BTW: any chance of renaming those TxPyro and TxMandrill? :) > > -glyph > > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python > > If ever the Twisted org on github feels a bit crowded, I think a break out to something like TxCommons is a good idea. Cheers, Bret
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