Looking for people to take over some packages

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I'm shifting life gears, trying to get away from the computer more during my
hours away from work. As part of that, I'm looking to get out of the
package authorship/maintenance business. Currently, I am officially listed
as the "maintainer" (I use that term loosely - I really do very little at
this time) of the following packages on PyPI (http://pypi.python.org/):

bsddb185
lockfile
spambayes
tb

Some time ago Ben Finney offered to take over lockfile. He doesn't want to
horse around with Google Code and I don't want to learn how to use
git/github just to make the existing code available to him. Perhaps someone
with both Google Code and Github accounts can facilitate the exchange.

Taking over the SpamBayes package probably implies a committment to greater
involvement in the SpamBayes project (so be careful before you volunteer).
It's worth poking around http://www.spambayes.org/.

Bsddb185 is just a repackaging of the old bsddb185 module which got dropped
from the Python core some years ago. It probably gets very little use, but
last I looked, there were still some systems which used that versy of
Berkeley DB.

Tb provides a couple alternate traceback formatting functions. The
compact_traceback function is an adaptation of the one generated by
asyncore. The verbose_traceback function includes local variable values in
the trace.

If you have any interest in helping with any of these, let me know.

 

[Chris Withers]

I don't see a need to horse around with Git either It's currently in
Subversion, right? Can you not export the VCS history from Google Code's
Subversion repository to a ‘fastimport’ stream? Maybe someone with
experience on that site can help us.

What's wrong with a "git svn clone svn-url-here" ?

Chris