python-sig in pkgdb2?

Robert Kuska rkuska at redhat.com
Tue Oct 7 13:57:26 UTC 2014



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Spura" <tomspur at fedoraproject.org>
> To: "Fedora Python SIG" <python-devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 7 October, 2014 3:41:23 PM
> Subject: Re: python-sig in pkgdb2?
> 
> 2014-10-07 9:10 GMT+02:00 Bohuslav Kabrda <bkabrda at redhat.com>:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> there just was a request to test groups for pkgdb2 [1] and I thought
> >> it might be a good opportunity to maybe start sharing at least some
> >> core python packages among a few people.
> >>
> >> For instance, I maintain ipython and the dependency chain when other
> >> maintainers chose to orphan something I need for it (or ipython
> >> introduces a new dependency). Such packages are good candidates to be
> >> maintained by a group of people, so updates can be managed better and
> >> several people have an eye on them.
> >>
> >> What do others think about that? Who else would be interested in
> >> starting a common python-sig group in pkgdb2?
> >
> > I'm generally +1 for this, although I think people should still first try
> > to contact the primary maintainer and then patch things themselves. For
> > example, in python{,3}.spec, we're trying to follow a certain style of
> > patch naming to keep things consistent and it's very disconcerting when a
> > proven packager who needs to fix something creates a patch that completely
> > ignores this...
> > But yeah, I do agree that this is a good idea :)
> 
> All members of the python-sig group have commit rights, no matter if
> they are proven packagers or "just" members.
> 
> Hmm, maybe python{2,3}, pypy etc can be left out of the python-sig? I

+1

> really think that nobody of that group will touch the main python
> package unless they really know what they do or file a bug instead...
> 
> > Will you start the group, Tom?
> 
> I will. Thanks for all the feedback.

Count me in.

(And thank you for the effort)

>    Tom
> 
> >> Greetings,
> >>     Tom
> >>
> >> [1]
> >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2014-October/001445.html
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Slavek Kabrda
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