Re: I'm the new maintainer of pykickstart

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.
>