On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 04:06:32PM +0100, Raphaël Barrois wrote: > Hello there, > > I am not sure the tone of that discussion is suitable for that mailing-list ;)
I totally agree on this point. Let's try to keep it civil. > Regarding the initial discussion, if I understand correctly, the idea would > be to find a way to prevent useful packages > from turning into abandoned, unmaintained projects. > > From my (personal) experience: > - If someone is interested in taking over maintenance of an abandoned > project, the original author is often quite happy > to help > - If the task seems too daunting to handle it single-handedly, you could try > to find a few other power-users of the > package who would be willing to help maintain it > > In that second case, the benefit of a generic/umbrella organisation would be > to simplify the task of finding > co-maintainers for a project. > > I am not part of the Django team, but I don't see why the maintenance of > those extra projects would have to be handled > by the Django team; a better start might be to approach the maintainers of a > few projects that matter to you and > discuss the idea with them; if that works, you could, as a group, decide > whether you want that to happen within the > Django org or within a different org. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this exactly what Jazzband (https://jazzband.co/) is about? Coincidentally, currently it consists mostly of Django projects. Michal -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/20160316152414.GR25061%40koniiiik.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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