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Hi, |
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TL;DR: please do not add others as maintainers of your packages without |
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asking them first. For example, please stop adding python@ to anything |
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that remotely looks like Python without consent of Python project. |
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The Python team is currently maintaining over 1200 packages. Many of |
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those packages were never touched, reviewed or even ever seen by members |
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of the Python project. For some of them, we ended up as (factual or |
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effective) primary (or only) maintainers even though none of us ever had |
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any clue about the package in question. We maintain packages that have |
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barely any relevance to Python, or fit our 'modus operandi'. |
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This problem is not limited to the Python team. What was my surprise |
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when bugs against outdated libFuzzer package started coming to LLVM |
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project even though nobody has ever even pinged us about that package. |
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Therefore, I would like to ask all developers the following: if you |
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believe we should co-maintain your package, please ask us *first*. Stop |
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adding people without their consent. Thank you. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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