[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 01:36:36 CEST 2006

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

At 12:28 AM 6/13/2006 +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

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. The "this should not happen again" in this case was the merge problem, not the editing. There is a significant difference between the two.

Well, you wrote, in

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-June/065908.html

"only to find that it doesn't correspond to any particular point in the trunk, because people made changes without contacting me or the Web-SIG. ... Please don't do this again."

(where the three dots indicate something that you have done, not somebody else)

From that, I can only conclude that you requested that people should not make changes again without contacting you or the Web-SIG.

It's not clear whether you want to be contacted before or after the changes have been made. If "after" is ok, you should just subscribe to python-checkins.

Still, Guido dislikes the notion of having to contact anybody when making changes, as a matter of principle. I can sympathize with that view.

Regards, Martin

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