[Distutils] Setting up a setuptools community

[Jeff Rush]

Dave Peterson wrote:
> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>> At 11:40 PM 4/1/2008 -0500, Dave Peterson wrote:
>>> I've previously volunteered Enthought to do about the same thing (except
>>> to include svn with the Trac instance) but there wasn't much response
>>> beyond Jeff Rush saying he was already setting one up, and the response
>>> by Phillip to use the python dev bug-tracker and svn instead.
>> ...
>>
>>> Phillip, I think everyone is waiting for you to provide direction so can
>>> you make some decisions about how setuptools evolves to a larger
>>> community effort?
>> As I believe you just pointed out, I already did that.  :)
> 
> Egggcellent.
> 
> Doing a search for 'setuptools' in the issue tracker only returns two 
> open issues currently.  I'm guessing I'm not catching all the issues as 
> a result.    It would probably help if we had a clear component to use 
> (i.e. Setuptools).   Anyone have any idea who to contact to get that 
> done?  I've so far had no luck reading the info on www.python.org/dev 
> looking for this sort of thing.

Hi Dave,

At PyCon I asked the core team about using the Python tracker for setuptools 
but Brett Cannon said that no software outside of the Python core is currently 
using it and it wouldn't be appropriate for setuptools to do so.  They were 
willing to give us our own instance of a tracker, similar to how they have for 
Jython.

Martin v. Löwis has been in the process since PyCon of doing so, but is busy 
and apparently the Roundup software used is tricky to configure for this and,f 
for the email address, requires ISP intervention.  The plan when this is done 
is to have a tracker at http://bugs.python.org/setuptools/ with an email 
address for submission/commenting of setuptools at bugs.python.org.

Sorry for the delay - I didn't realize this would be such a big deal to get 
started.  We could also start using Launchpad instantly, but I figured 
reaching concensus to do so, with Phillip and others more familiar with the 
Python tracker, would be difficult.

-Jeff