[Python-Dev] Infra issues (was: Re: I would like an svn account)

[Brett Cannon]

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 15:21, Ivan Krstić
<krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>>
>> There have been many problems on upgrade for the cases where we gave in:
>> shared libraries were missing after the upgrade (for Zope), the software
>> wasn't available anymore after the upgrade (in case of manually-install
>> Python pacakges), and so on. Very few people have actually helped in fixing
>> these problems
>
> What's the preferred way of offering help with infrastructure problems, and
> to what extent, in your opinion, is the solution to have more hands on deck
> vs. farming out certain (groups of) services to different machines?

For volunteering with infrastructure stuff, you can just speak up on
the proper mailing list: either pydotorg or tracker-discuss (the
former is a catch-all while the latter is specifically the issue
tracker). And for people who are PSF members there is an
infrastructure committee that I chair which handles the big-picture
issues (e.g. choosing the issue tracker, server purchases, etc.).

-Brett