[Zope-dev] SVN: ZConfig/trunk/setup.py correct metadata: I really did write this.

Christian Theune ct at gocept.com
Tue Apr 20 04:22:34 EDT 2010


Hi,

On 04/09/2010 07:38 PM, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote:
> On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Fred Drake wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Tres Seaver<tseaver at palladion.com>  wrote:
>>> It seems reasonable to me that it *should* work, though I'm not sure how to write the code which tests that.
>>
>> See my later follow-up as well.
>>
>> In particular, while it *may* be reasonable to set the ZF as
>> maintainer, it's not clear that it's the right thing either.  Why
>> shouldn't some "Grok Team" be listed as the maintainer for the grok
>> packages, with an appropriate email?  That seems preferable to me.
>>
>> I think the *right* thing to do is update the copyrights to reflect
>> the copyright ownership, but not to otherwise change package metadata.
>
> Why was the check for author even included in the checker/fixer scripts?
> Can you point us to the Zope Foundation bylaws or a policy document that requires this?
>
> I cannot find this in a contributor agreement.

Pondering it this is an overzealous misunderstanding on my part. I'm 
removing the assertion.

Christian

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