Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: =?UTF-8?Q?IOhannes_m_zm=c3=b6lnig_=28Debian/GNU=29?= Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: [DPMT] radical changes: automation, carrot and stick Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2015 12:00:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Mon Oct 5 09:52:30 2015 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.38 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DIGITS_LETTERS=1, FOURLA=0.1, FVGT_m_MULTI_ODD=0.02, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, MONEY=0.5, PGPSIGNATURE=-5, STOCKLIKE=1] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -6.1 X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Organization: Debian User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20090103 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received-Spf: none client-ip=193.170.191.190; envelope-from=umlaeute@debian.org; helo=[192.168.171.180] X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/12765 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/56124844.4010207@debian.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 48 Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 11:52:04 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <56124844.4010207@debian.org> X-Original-References: <20151001231800.GC3965@p1otr.com> <878u7luu4j.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:7454 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-10-02 18:12, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > On Oct 02 2015, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >> I think that the main problem of our team is that we have over >> 300 members and only few people contribute to packages they >> didn't inject to the repo (some people do not care even about >> those). > > I always assumed that it was generally preferred to have Python > packages be maintained in the Python team, even if the maintainer > has little interest or time in contributing to other Python > packages. > > Did I get the wrong impression? this was also my impression and the main reason why i joined the team. i brought in 3 packages needed as a dependency for some other package maintained by pkg-multimedia; the 3 modules are general purpose, so it makes little sense to maintain them in pkg-multimedia - DPMT seemed to be the right place. as others have mentioned, i also set DPMT as "maintainer", in order to not keep anybody from contributing (and not because I wanted to unload the packaging burden on the team). fgmasdr IOhannes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWEkhCAAoJELZQGcR/ejb41YgP/3n5Ji/EUuzUhHI3+MRHMa6I etTAP3KJkKtKipKOdgnmUDn4XLLM+aM4M3V2Y1O/FOu+R/dJc/+ynnGZS47twLJm edjFNSRhjiLDGTk4Io0m7jgV80YCr+5MfCe2/dnrIE4mEM4z69Cjo6cR+G2adz8f EhoScamtuhkyJ26fH3OMgBTWJLMwP1zUilhySSCxvRf8U7mSBHH2ugNdu7ph7t1N EL4e2ySvV0JNA2Pd6PQG/6vL8/EvMpzLXBBeLAAAm63kT2UhLryb5yTABFIxyz3d odn+hVFHhJuoTRxYiH6apTr/RxX1za7lYAY7aXcsIt1h/jL3uy6L4vm3XtJReAaR 6FWqVjoJdHzn/NUID3bgHTv4L2csolKI+TPcnvpzR0VYMOtcNfIVhkKEthTP0ybC D7iPKtqtK/idM34Oc7cZnF0Abk4LWr9kakgt816mNsm4/GI9e1ipqwyQNx/21eF0 cBVfjX1+xQohRP+7Lw58+RTVHPUp05Z5ld8qD0XrNwMWjF3HiASo65HVUVVy0cph lYwPgG8mk46a+Bsxy4Kjvi4LAY33MeUphbsGfgqMA11eUF9zHtbPIBetxh1+Ip46 geU06DiPsX4CE70WLnAZoQQujANG/haSI1/ULF19pouC7L7sLN711PuQ4WvEh5M6 foeUUpjt2NzuFvR2KCbF =n8eR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----