F7 Zope package

[Hans de Goede]

Denis Leroy wrote:
> Brian Pepple wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:42 +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
>>> What is happening here is that no matter who wants to maintain Python
>>> 2.4.x in whatever form for Fedora 7, the idea is being shot down since
>>> Jeremy (the main Python maintainer) does not like it. That is what
>>> needs a little explaining. All that I have seen is that it will cause
>>> "agonizing pain", "it is too difficult", etc..
>>
>> No, the reason the idea is being shot down is because the majority of
>> FESCo does not like the idea.  You are seriously mis-characterizing
>> FESCo's decision by implying that Jeremy is the sole reason that Python
>> 2.4 is not being maintained in F7. 
> 
> Why does this even have to go to FESCO in the first place ? We should 
> just make a Call For Submissions for packagers to try Alan's idea and 
> package python 2.4 with zope, and it should just go through the regular 
> review process... If it's really too difficult to do, we'll either have 
> noone willing to do the work, or the submitted packages will have too 
> many problems to go through review. Just follow the process...
> 

+1. but for some reason FESco has decided to veto this before its even tried, 
hence my comparison to censorship.

Regards,

Hans