Plea for mercurial_keyring to be pulled into tree

[Markus Zapke-Gründemann]

Matt Mackall schrieb:
> On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 16:10 +0100, Markus Zapke-Gründemann wrote:
>> Markus Zapke-Gründemann schrieb:
>>> Matt Mackall schrieb:
>>>> On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 13:42 +0100, Markus Zapke-Gründemann wrote:
>>>>> Matt Mackall schrieb:
>>>>>> On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 14:41 +0200, Markus Zapke-Gründemann wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Marcin,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> what's the status of the inclusion of mercurial keyring with Mercurial? Do you
>>>>>>> need any help to prepare this?
>>>>>> It'll have to wait for after Nov 1st now.
>>>>> Matt, any news here?
>>>> Yes! It's officially after Nov 1st, so it no longer needs to wait.
>>> It looks Marcin has not enough time to drive the inclusion of mercurial keyring
>>> into the core. I asked Steve but he is also too busy to help here. So I would
>>> propose that I will create a patch which can be discussed here when it's done.
>> Matt, I'm sorry I have to bother you again. But before I start to work on
>> including mercurial keyring into the core it's important for me to know if you
>> would accept a patch by me in general, even if I'm not the maintainer of
>> mercurial keyring. Otherwise it wouldn't make much sense for me to invest time
>> in a patch which wouldn't be accepted by default.
> 
> The things I generally care about when pulling in something like this:
> 
> - approval from author
> - someone committed to ongoing maintenance
> - license compatibility
> - conformance to our style and coding guidelines
> - general compatibility with Mercurial design philosophy
> 
> That second one is the one that worries me most with keyring at the
> moment. 
I would take care of the maintenance.


Regards

Markus