jeff rush wgqvtauprocom phillip j eby wrote im actually happy hear theres much energy available hopefully harnessed towards positive solutions began developing setuptools often asked input packagers developers etc distutilssig met overwhelming silence fact group people ready work solutions seems like positive change appreciate frustrating silence call input lets see keep volunteer energy going time around hard make design decisions regarding itches dont personally people wont help scratch unfortunately lot proposals packaging system people form fix us breaking things people though many helpful contributing troubleshooting help good patches good patches took nearly year get setuptools fedora got 06c8 sent almost year ago im person reviewing setuptools patches ive spent days last year focused development work setuptools opposed answering questions sig never good thing peoples patches sit around regardless come thats thing rejecting patches others appreciate call patches various topics however long delay applying discourage contribution open giving certain others patch viewcommit privileges setuptools id willing help keep carefully balanced hand accepted jeff _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 091939 0500 pythondev capsule summary packagingdeployment technology concerns