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Subject: Looking for people to take over some packages
Date: Sat,  3 Mar 2012 09:47:03 -0600 (CST)
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I'm shifting life gears, trying to get away from the computer more during my
hours away from work.  As part of that, I'm looking to get out of the
package authorship/maintenance business.  Currently, I am officially listed
as the "maintainer" (I use that term loosely - I really do very little at
this time) of the following packages on PyPI (http://pypi.python.org/):

    bsddb185
    lockfile
    spambayes
    tb

Some time ago Ben Finney offered to take over lockfile.  He doesn't want to
horse around with Google Code and I don't want to learn how to use
git/github just to make the existing code available to him.  Perhaps someone
with both Google Code and Github accounts can facilitate the exchange.

Taking over the SpamBayes package probably implies a committment to greater
involvement in the SpamBayes project (so be careful before you volunteer).
It's worth poking around http://www.spambayes.org/.

Bsddb185 is just a repackaging of the old bsddb185 module which got dropped
from the Python core some years ago.  It probably gets very little use, but
last I looked, there were still some systems which used that versy of
Berkeley DB.

Tb provides a couple alternate traceback formatting functions.  The
compact_traceback function is an adaptation of the one generated by
asyncore.  The verbose_traceback function includes local variable values in
the trace.

If you have any interest in helping with any of these, let me know.

-- 
Skip Montanaro - skip@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/