Re: collective packages on pypi

Giacomo Spettoli <giacomo.spettoli@...> writes:

> maybe a way in the middle of between total closure and total openess is to
give that "collective account" to a team that is active but not completely
open. ATM one solution could be the FTW, but I think there should be a new
team for that, let's say the "release team", that will be responsible for
releases and can be asked to cut releases. My main concerns are about
responsability, there should always be a one responsible. The collective
membership is not enought cause anyone can join, even malicious developer.
Plus, what happen if a disagreement happen between two developer that have
same powers but different thought? There could be a "release war" and that's
definitely not a good thing.

I played with something like this when working on PythonPackages, going so
far as to create a pythonpackages user on PyPI which I then added to any
package I wanted to release via pythonpackages.com. But I gave up when PyPI
began supporting Oauth (which then allowed me to get users' permission to
release packages in a much more elegant way, via token exchange, etc.)

I mention this because: while I support the idea of "collective ownership"
of all our collective packages, I'm not convinced a collective user is good
approach (it might be, and we can certainly try). However: I do feel that we
should be looking to PyPI, which is under heavy development now, for all our
package hosting needs. We broke PSC in some meaningful way during our
"configuration bankruptcy" a while back and only a single person has
complained so far, which tells me no one is really using the package hosting
features. Conversely if plone.org goes down, I hear about it within about 5
seconds.



Alex




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