[pytest-dev] pytest-twisted needs a new maintainer

[Ralf Schmitt]

Anatoly Bubenkov <bubenkoff at gmail.com> writes:

> I can't totally agree with this. pytest community is responsible anyway for
> the pytest plugins whose original authors/maintainers want to resign.
> And that was one of the main reason for me to push for the pytest-dev team
> - the guarantee that even if the plugin's author doesn't work to do
> anything for certain plugin anymore, the community will take over and will
> at least do bugfix releases/merge PRs, this is not so much of work. And why
> it's required to have explicit maintainer - it's not clear to me fully.

I agree with Anatoly's reasoning and I think it would not hurt to add
unmaintained packages. 

> PS: pytest-twisted is actually useful and used by the people, so loosing it
> is a bit sad

Christian Long volunteered to maintain pytest-twisted. The repository
already moved to https://github.com/christianmlong/pytest-twisted.
I hope that it can be added to the pytest-dev organization.

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Cheers
Ralf