Reassigning most of my packages to "python-maint at redhat.com"

David Malcolm dmalcolm at redhat.com
Thu May 9 16:36:25 UTC 2013


On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 02:44 -0400, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > For the last 3 years I've been paid by Red Hat to work on Python
> > runtimes within Fedora (and RHEL).
> > 
> > I'm still going to be around, but I'm going to be focusing on the gcc
> > work I've been doing.  Bohuslav "Slavek" Kabrda (bkabrda at redhat.com)
> > will be spending more of his time on Python, and I believe RH is also
> > planning to assign some more people to Python.
> > 
> > Hence RH has created a "python-maint at redhat.com" address to be "the team
> > within Red Hat who work on Python", which currently is myself and
> > Slavek, and probably some more RH employees.  (I believe we have a
> > similar thing in place for the kernel).
> > 
> 
> Actually, this is supposed to be for RHEL stuff, not Fedora. I think we should just continue on per-package basis in Fedora (at least that was my original intention).

OK.  I think I missed this earlier, which was why I was mistakenly
reassigning Fedora python bugs to that address.   Sorry about that; I'll
stop doing that now.

> > Currently I'm marked as owner of 24 packages in Fedora (and EPEL), but
> > I've been fairly free in handing out commit rights to people who want
> > them:
[...]

> So if it's ok with you, I can take python, python3 (I'm working on them anyway) and python-six (because I like it :)).

I've now (finally) orphaned those 3 packages in the Fedora packagedb, so
please go ahead and claim them.

[...]

> Thank you Dave, you did a great job with Python! I think we all hope to still have you around :)
Thanks!




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