[python-committers] Eric Araujo (merwok) as Distutils commiter

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 27 Jul, 2010, at 16:24, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

> Le mardi 27 juillet 2010 à 07:15 -0700, Guido van Rossum a écrit :
>> Well like it or not Tarek is not going to do it. So who will? You, or
>> a new volunteer? 
> 
> Well, we don't even know if Éric actually volunteers for maintaining
> distutils.
> Otherwise the module will just rot as Tarek said, until distutils2
> replaces it. This is certainly a less than optimal transition, but if
> distutils2 matures quickly enough it will not be as painful as it seems.
> (much less painful anyway than the state of distutils before Tarek
> started maintenance on it)

It won't really rot, it won't get as much attention as when Tarek did maintain it. We'll basicly revert to the situation before Tarek volunteered to maintain distutils (which he did very well)

Ronald

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