[Python-Dev] Status of packaging in 3.3

[Hynek Schlawack]

On 06/20, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

> Let's make things clear: packaging is suffering from a lack of
> developer involvement, 

Absolutely.

And to be more precise: solid hands-on leadership. Eric wrote it in his
original mail: both packaging maintainers are burned out/busy.  That’s a state
that is very unlikely to attract more developers – myself included.

> and a lack of user interest.

Maybe I'm getting you wrong here, but ISTM that proper packaging is in the
short list on nearly everybody’s “things I wish they'd fix in Python”.