[Python-apps-team] Bug#708573: trac-accountmanager: Please remove Python Applications Packaging Team as maintainer

[Scott Kitterman]

On Friday, May 17, 2013 02:13:10 PM Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 05/17/2013 01:55 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> > You misunderstand.
> 
> I don't think i misunderstood at all.
> 
> > I'm all for having a good common environment for the team to work on.  I
> > happen to think you suggested just about the worst one possible.  I've
> > tried it and I find it much more complex, error prone, and time consuming
> > than what we have now.
> 
> I understand that this is what you believe, you made that clear.  Your
> experience with DVCS with full upstream source does not match my
> experience with the same tools, but i'm sure our experiences are
> different in many ways :)
> 
> > So I'm all for improvement, but it should be an improvement.  I'd love it
> > if we we using a DVCS, but I don't think full source branches are a good
> > idea.
> I was offering to do the work to drive a transition.  I'm sorry that the
> end point of the transition i was proposing is not what you wanted.
> 
> Unsurprisingly, I'm not willing to do the work to drive a transition
> that ends up somewhere that doesn't make sense to me (though if it was a
> transition to git i would happily support someone else doing that work
> even if we differed on whether to include upstream source or not).  But
> it doesn't sound like anyone is willing to do the work to drive a
> transition that ends up where you want; or if they are, i haven't heard
> any offers.
> 
> So PAPT will probably stay with one large centralized VCS that seems to
> be no ones' first choice.
> 
> ah well,

I think Barry's point is well taken.  Is there a structure/tool set that can 
accomplish what both of us want?

Scott K
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