Heads-up: python 2.5 on its way

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 12/6/06, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> This is just a heads up that I'm in the progress of getting python 2.5
> staged for the development tree.  At this point, I'm doing the build on
> the side and trying to get a good chunk of the Core packages rebuilt
> against it before pushing to the development tree itself.  I'm still
> hoping to be able to do the actual move over either later today or
> tomorrow (depending on how fast the Core build system decides to be)

I need a clear policy statement with regard to how the frell I'm
suppose to get my python packages in Extras rebuilt in a timely
manner.

Do i have the authority to bump release packages underneath mine as
needed? Or do I have to sit on my hands waiting for the maintainers to
have the time to deal with this?  I'd like to avoid pissing all over
someone little packaging empire, but I'm prepared to slash and burn my
way through the heart of the python stack if need be to get scipy
buildable again.

Considering the holiday season I am very concerned that we will have
an unbuildable python stack in Extras for another month, as we wait
for maintainers to dribble back from a holiday afk, unless those of us
with the time and the community goodwill are able to step and and
punch bump/builds through the system in an orderly manner NOW.

Do we have a ticking clock condition here? Am I suppose to wait some
amount of time, gentlemanly-like, before I start hammering my way
through the python package space cleaning this crap up?

-jef"sharpening his new titanium eye-poking stick"spaleta