[Mageia-dev] We need a Python maintainer (& help with security issues)

Sat Jun 16 16:34:51 CEST 2012

2012/6/16 Sandro CAZZANIGA <cazzaniga.sandro at gmail.com>:
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+> Le 16 juin 2012 15:14, "David Walser" <luigiwalser at yahoo.com> a écrit :
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+>>
+>> As some of you may know, one of the developers left the project that was
+>> the maintainer of the python package, as well as many other python modules
+>> and python-based software packages.  We need someone new to step up and
+>> maintain, at the very least, python, as it's a critical package.  Help with
+>> the other orphaned packages would be great as well.
+>>
+>> Currently there are security updates needed for three python packages that
+>> I'm aware of.
+>>
+>> The python package itself:
+>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5843
+>>
+>> python-django, a module used by transifex (used by translators I think):
+>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6162
+>>
+>> gajim, a Jabber IM client (needs updated to version 0.15):
+>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5432
+>
+> I can take a look for this last, in the afternoon.
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+I'm currently working on gajim, I take care of it :)
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