[Python-modules-team] proposal: moving awscli and python-botocore to cloud-team ownership

[Scott Kitterman]

On June 24, 2020 12:18:39 AM UTC, Noah Meyerhans <noahm at debian.org> wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 08:35:53PM -0300, Emmanuel Arias wrote:
>> > Please don't.  Please ask them to be moved properly by opening a
>ticket
>> > if you don't find another way.
>> 
>> I agree with Bastian, This is not a fork itself, Is the same project
>moving to
>> another team.
>
>Yes.
>
>> IMO, If we fork, the repository will still exist on DPMT and can be
>re-working.
>
>Of course, but an admin of the source project can simply delete it.  In
>any case, it's moot point, since the projects in question have already
>been migrated.
>
>Requiring an "administrator" to get involved in order to move a package
>from one maintainer to another is the sort of thing that gets people
>muttering about the "Debian cabal" again...

Muttering or not, there's nothing gained be doing it the hard way unless there are pending merge requests (we don't generally use the Git Lab features the would make it worth the trouble to invoke administrator level work).

Scott K