[Twisted-Python] Progress report on splitting packages

[Christopher Armstrong]

Mary Gardiner wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2004, Christopher Armstrong wrote:
> 
>>Andrew Bennetts wrote:
>>
>>>I'd like to see the reasons for these decisions summarised in that
>>>document too -- I can guess at them, but it would be nice to know,
>>>and will help future splits of subprojects go smoothly and
>>>consistently.
>>
>>I'm not interested in creating a "Split Document", because that's an
>>inherently temporal thing. With the help of exarkun, there does exist
>>a small file documenting the process that I must go through to do a
>>split for a particular project, but it is not of general interest (no
>>rationale, etc).
> 
> 
> What about a document for people who in future, want to add new twisted
> subprojects, from scratch? Some of the same policy will be relevant to
> them, and that wouldn't be a transitory document.

It seems quite unnecessary, and I'm not convinced enough of its utility 
to actually put effort into it. There's not much special about a 
"Twisted Subproject"; AFAIC they're just projects that are developed by 
"Twisted Matrix Laboratories", which is rather nebulous.

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