Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev-announce

From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev-announce@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev-announce] Multiple misc. Python packages for grabs
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 21:39:50
Message-Id: 20161029232157.172fb126.mgorny@gentoo.org
1 Hello,
2
3 The Python team is dropping itself from maintainers of the following
4 packages. As a result, those packages no longer have any maintainer:
5
6 app-admin/supervisor
7 app-editors/leo
8 app-misc/yworklog
9 app-text/pdfminer
10 app-text/pylize
11 dev-util/bumpversion
12 dev-util/tailor
13 net-ftp/pybootd
14 net-im/turses
15 net-irc/redirbot
16 net-misc/charm
17 net-misc/pycnb
18 net-misc/whatportis
19 net-news/rawdog
20 net-voip/blink
21 sys-process/glances
22 www-apps/bitten
23 x11-misc/menumaker
24
25 Those packages are not really part of the Python ecosystem. Most of
26 them had python@g.o added as a co-maintainer (or in some cases as
27 the only maintainer, without even bothering to ping us) because
28 the software in question was written in Python, and never had been
29 really maintained by the Python team. Once the primary maintainer
30 abandoned them, they became sole Python team responsibility.
31
32 Using this opportunity, I would like to note that there really is no
33 reason to add Python team as co-maintainers to every software ever
34 written in Python. The Python team focuses on maintaining tools
35 and modules needed to use and develop Python on Gentoo.
36
37 --
38 Best regards,
39 Michał Górny
40 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>