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?

Greetings, Tom [1]

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I've stepped back from packaging for the most part but I think this is a great idea. When I was active I'd often find something to cleanup in python packaging for each release (pil => pillow; removing python-setuptools-devel). A python-sig group would definitely help with future cleanups like those.

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?

Greetings, Tom [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2014-October/001...

From: "Thomas Spura" <tomspur(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; To: "Fedora Python SIG" <python-devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; 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(a)redhat.com&gt;: > ----- 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

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.

Tom >> Greetings, >> Tom >> >> [1] >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2014-October/001... > > -- > Regards, > Slavek Kabrda > _______________________________________________ > python-devel mailing list > python-devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/python-devel _______________________________________________ python-devel mailing list python-devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/python-devel