[Python-Dev] Dropping externally maintained packages (Was:Please stop changing wsgiref on the trunk) (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Jun 13 00:28:57 CEST 2006

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

But I don't think this is trying to say they don't care. People just want to lower the overhead of maintaining the distro. well, wouldn't the best way to do that be to leave all non-trivial maintenance of a given component to an existing external community?

If you remember that this is the procedure: sure. However, if the maintainer of a package thinks (and says) "somebody edited my code, this should not happen again", then I really think the code is better not part of the Python distribution.

I mean, we're not really talking about ordinary leak-elimination or portability-fixing or security-hole-plugging maintenance; it's the let's-extend-the-api-in-incompatible- ways and fork-because-we-can stuff that I'm worried about.

I can understand that (and supported it in the first place, as you may well recall). You should decide whether you worry about that so much that you don't trust python-dev contributors to treat this in a sensible way. If you don't trust them, you should withdraw your code.

Regards, Martin

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