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[Clint Byrum <clint@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Excerpts from Gary Poster's message of Wed May 23 05:59:26 -0700 2012:
> On 05/22/2012 03:31 PM, Clint Byrum wrote:
> > Excerpts from Gary Poster's message of Tue May 22 10:46:13 -0700 2012:
> >> On 05/22/2012 01:03 PM, Clint Byrum wrote:
> >>> Excerpts from Gary Poster's message of Tue May 22 07:31:26 -0700 2012:
> >>>> Hi Clint.  Thanks for your work in organizing this.
> >>>>
> >>>> For the buildbot slave and master charms, we'd like to make the yellow
> >>>> squad, or perhaps the Launchpad team, the maintainer of these charms.
> >>>> Do you see any issue with that?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> None whatsoever, thats great news! We do need a mailing list that anyone
> >>> can send to.
> >>>
> >>> Would you guys be interested in also becoming our first charmers sub-team?
> >>> I'd like to showcase that you guys take care of that particular charm.
> >>
> >> I talked with Francis and Robert about what team ought to take charge of
> >> this--launchpad or yellow.  Actually, since we have no long-term
> >> interest in buildbot, their take was that ~charmers would be the best
> >> team to choose.
> >>
> >> Alternatively, we can keep it for now (~yellow,
> >> yellow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) if that helps you all out for a bit. If you
> >> do publicize it in that case, be aware that we might toss it back to you
> >> in a few months.  If that future is alright with you, no problem.
> >>
> > 
> > If you guys won't have time to maintain it, then it will be removed. We're
> > only going to be able to maintain critical infrastructure bits that
> > are shared amongst many charms. Unfortunately, buildbot seems to be an
> > island unto itself at the moment.
> 
> Understood, Clint.  We voted to go ahead and have it removed then.
> 
> To be clear, our juju work also included the Python charm helpers and
> the python-shell-toolbox package, and we hope that the buildbot decision
> does not change your intent for those contributions.  We're waiting on
> you to have time to package these, and I know Graham and you have been
> in touch about this.
> 
> We use the python-shell-toolbox and intend to support it.
> 
> We hope that you still feel that the Python charm helpers we contributed
> are valuable even without the buildbot charm.  The charm helpers depend
> on the python-shell-toolbox.  If you need us to support the charm helper
> contributions, I believe we'd be willing and able, one way or another.
> 

Totally, its still very important that we have simple abstractions for
those common tasks, and you guys nailed it. I've just been swamped with
other urgent tasks. :p