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  Looking for people to take over some packages skip@pobox.com - 2012-03-03 09:47 -0600
    Adopting ‘lockfile’ (was: Looking for people to take over some packages) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-03-04 08:43 +1100
      Re: Adopting ‘lockfile’ Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk> - 2012-03-04 22:34 +0000
        Re: Adopting ‘lockfile’ Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-03-14 09:37 +1100
          Re: Adopting ‘lockfile’ Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-06-07 14:28 +1000

#21169 — Looking for people to take over some packages

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/

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#21173 — Adopting ‘lockfile’ (was: Looking for people to take over some packages)

skip@pobox.com writes:

> Some time ago Ben Finney offered to take over lockfile.

That offer is still open. (Though I would appreciate ongoing development
help from people who use non-Linux operating systems, since file locking
works differently there and I don't have the resources to test on
those.)

> 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.

I don't see a need to horse around with Git either :-) It's currently in
Subversion, right? Can you not export the VCS history from Google Code's
Subversion repository to a ‘fastimport’ stream? Maybe someone with
experience on that site can help us.

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

Thanks for the responsible move to seek adoption for these projects.

-- 
 \        “I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance |
  `\                                          any day.” —Douglas Adams |
_o__)                                                                  |
Ben Finney

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#21205 — Re: Adopting ‘lockfile’

On 03/03/2012 21:43, Ben Finney wrote:
> I don't see a need to horse around with Git either :-) It's currently in
> Subversion, right? Can you not export the VCS history from Google Code's
> Subversion repository to a ‘fastimport’ stream? Maybe someone with
> experience on that site can help us.

What's wrong with a "git svn clone svn-url-here" ?

Chris

-- 
Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing & Python Consulting
            - http://www.simplistix.co.uk

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#21587 — Re: Adopting ‘lockfile’

Chris Withers <chris@simplistix.co.uk> writes:

> On 03/03/2012 21:43, Ben Finney wrote:
> > I don't see a need to horse around with Git either :-) It's currently in
> > Subversion, right? Can you not export the VCS history from Google Code's
> > Subversion repository […]

> What's wrong with a "git svn clone svn-url-here" ?

Thanks for the suggestion. I've imported it from Subversion into Bazaar
(my preferred DVCS), and it went smoothly.

I will proceed with a handover from Skip for maintenance of ‘lockfile’.


This will definitely need more people than me to maintain, though! I am
interested and motivated to work on the Linux platform, but other
platforms will suffer unless I get co-maintainers with experience in the
different file locking semantics there.

-- 
 \      “I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. |
  `\     But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take |
_o__)                                    it seriously.” —Douglas Adams |
Ben Finney

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#23856 — Re: Adopting ‘lockfile’

Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> writes:

> Thanks for the suggestion. I've imported it from Subversion into Bazaar
> (my preferred DVCS), and it went smoothly.

Development of ‘python-lockfile’ now proceeds on Alioth
<URL:https://alioth.debian.org/projects/python-lockfile/>.

> I will proceed with a handover from Skip for maintenance of ‘lockfile’.
>
> This will definitely need more people than me to maintain, though!

Thanks to Aaron Maxwell for joining the development team, with initial
progress to a Python 3 port of the library.

> I am interested and motivated to work on the Linux platform, but other
> platforms will suffer unless I get co-maintainers with experience in
> the different file locking semantics there.

We still need people capable of working with this library on non-Linux
platforms. Join the development discussion mailing list
<URL:https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/python-lockfile-devel>
if you can offer us assistance with this.

-- 
 \     “I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.” —Steven |
  `\                                                            Wright |
_o__)                                                                  |
Ben Finney

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