Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Olly Betts Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Maintainership of wxpython3.0 Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 03:00:02 +0200 Message-ID: X-Original-To: freewx-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org, debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Thu Apr 21 00:54:44 2016 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-14.3 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, PGPSIGNATURE=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/13773 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20160421005423.GA621@survex.com Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 60 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 12:54:23 +1200 X-Original-Message-ID: <20160421005423.GA621@survex.com> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:8445 --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Currently wxpython3.0 is nominally maintained by the freewx team. There are 6 members of the freewx team on alioth, but only Gianfranco Costamagna and myself have been active at all recently, and pretty much all the work on wxpython3.0 has fallen to me. I have no direct interest in wxpython, I don't regularly code in python, and I have a lot of other commitments. So I really lack all of the time, motivation and skills to do a good job. If upstream were responsive this might not be a problem, but they seem focussed on "wxpython phoenix" (which AFAICT still isn't ready for primetime), and bug reports against the stable wxpython often get no useful response, e.g.: http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/16608 http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/16451 http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/15585 http://trac.wxwidgets.org/ticket/14367 With wx 2.8, the wxpython and the C++ wxwidgets library were built out of a single wxwidgets2.8 source package (which was actually the wxpython upstream source tarball, which contained an embedded copy of wxwidgets). With 3.0, we now have separate source packages, so there's no longer a need for the same person or team to maintain both. Really wxpython3.0 deserves a better Debian maintainer - either within the freewx team, or by having it adopted by another person or team. I'm asking on the freewx-maint and debian-python lists first, but if there are no takers I'll file an RFA. Cheers, Olly --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJXGCS/AAoJEBgUewc7rSsHrlQP/i6uv8hB6ybsJO/72bgfW4yX GpvbIDN/CJ51yc3Gghy7IIC4TIkOe7if4d6Db0fBeNdp9UGeYs3DWS3Ex/hnfxpT 8li7kmz/pzZe6gFiBswJB+xAp5i4mqepI5dtx99EdDFEk9l4rFGtM2acBkDjyhuX XnkmcY0Jz4M16Fyoa7XGuqws5u0iV3MXTy7fbvF+aAjDRecFCmzyBZQPaxcyWnC6 4i8eb3fY9m3XPCxj8062xRM9/Fq3tQ5rRVNlD4lm2uZW6wFWoLuXwIr+EgRsrdG7 AekpzGke8Ys/P/+lwLyVTSYdmu1nK4eT4Ci8bk9eUAhp8nljfDmOJHE9rtYm2hCK vFPo/ZSqDmgNygvKzJxeiSXeSsFNda1KLQ8avnJU+Js0SYv0SV+lH5nKs//x8hvm oeI7mokjI0OOw2Kc/YKl/mmHzZnX6AHTTbI/m4rEs5kdoAoBdBnbSa8Un375vsOy HQ81o8HlYGamyoS+ybMCXPbLdgMzOPX5EVdsLv11GZxTPi4jOi1NF7yDHSFvifWt dZgxIVSdVcS/02Jq4njR/hxzsUV5dWj/+k6ly1HQA+GjQcO2mimY9Fk7BBNrTqaj 5uSBLVp0XIq/feHXkkkc6vfC+HVlw0GVPXKq6qaP6LAnfjpHglzjHRAPvgmVok9n o5rIIiNjLTlarLB8Emqs =sxRZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xHFwDpU9dbj6ez1V--