[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration: help needed (original) (raw)

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Mon Aug 24 04:59:16 CEST 2009

On 23/08/2009 5:25 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

If this becomes seen as 'my' cause, I suspect it will run out of steam very quickly. I truly hope python-dev, as a community, takes some ownership of this issue That certainly won't happen. python-dev, as a community, has never ever taken ownership of anything. It's always individuals who take ownership.

I believe ownership of a task and ownership of a cause are somewhat different.

In other words, I'm happy to take ownership of a number as tasks relating to this cause, but if the general feeling is that it is my cause rather than our cause, then I will probably opt-out - I'm taking these tasks on at this moment purely because I believe it is a common cause.

So you essentially say that you want somebody else (but not you) take ownership - which, of course, is certainly fine. Hence my call for volunteers.

Hence my volunteering and the time I am currently spending.

There seem to be a number of people who agree the status-quo isn't acceptable, so I'm not sure what would happen in that case... My prediction is that it will depend on whether workable code is available by the time a decision is made to migrate. If code is available, then migration will happen (no matter whether the code has an owner); if no code is available, migration will stall.

Right - I guess we are all still struggling with exactly what "workable code" means in this context.

Cheers,

Mark

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