Retiring from the pkg-zope team

[Brian Sutherland]

Hi all,

It's been a very long time since I've been active in any way in zope
packaging and I'd like to make it official that I'm leaving the team.  I
am just too busy these days with non-internet life to be able to make
any significant contribution to the team at all.

I will remove my name from the uploaders field of all pkg-zope packages,
if anyone else gets there first, you have full permission to remove my
name.

One suggestion I have for the future team is to transfer ownership of
all python-* packages that the pkg-zope team manages to the Debian
Python Modules Team (DPMT). Basically for the reasons:

    * The python-* packages managed by pkg-zope are basically vanilla
      python packages
    * The DPMT has a lot more active manpower and probably will maintain
      the packages better if they are not stopped by the need to join
      pkg-zope to perform uploads
    * DPMT are actively filing bugs against our packages. Let's let them
      fix the problems themselves;)

I guess the packages would break down as follows:

- To continue with pkg-zope maintenance:
    zope-common
    zope-debhelper
    zope-maildrophost
    zope-mysqlda
    zope-quotafolder
    zope-replacesupport
    zope2.12
    zope2.13

- To be maintained by DPMT:
    bobo
    python-chameleon
    python-initgroups
    python-mechanize
    python-tz
    sourcecodegen
    transaction
    van.pydeb
    zc.buildout
    zc.lockfile
    zconfig
    zdaemon
    zodb
    zope.authentication
    zope.browser
    zope.cachedescriptors
    zope.component
    zope.configuration
    zope.contenttype
    zope.copy
    zope.deprecation
    zope.dottedname
    zope.event
    zope.exceptions
    zope.fixers
    zope.hookable
    zope.i18n
    zope.i18nmessageid
    zope.interface
    zope.location
    zope.proxy
    zope.publisher
    zope.schema
    zope.security
    zope.sendmail
    zope.sqlalchemy
    zope.testbrowser
    zope.testing
    zope.testrunner
    zope.traversing

Anyone have any objections?

Guess that's it! Hope to see some of you at conferences one day.

Cheers,

-- 
Brian Sutherland