As it seems that virtualenv package is in need of some maintenance effort, focused mostly on doing reviews, closing or merging them and eventually doing a new release once a month.
I know that virtualenv is in deprecation mode as its would be no longer needed when Python2 will no longer be used. The reality is that Python 2.x will still be in production after January 1st, 2020 because there are deployed products with LTS contracts which will need some time to get updated to newer versions that use py3. This automatically translates to the need to have a working virtualenv for testing them. I am part of the OpenStack team and I am sure that, even if I like it or not, I would have to deal with some amount of py2 even after the magic date. The current situation with virtualenv is pretty bad because there are lots of open pull-requests which are not reviewed or merged, mostly because there is nobody available to do that boring extra work. I had few changes that were improving the CI testing of virtualenv which soon will be one year old,... most of them without any feedback. Even finding whom to ping by email or irc was a challenge as I got two responses: no response at all or someone else telling me that they are not maintainers of the virtualenv package. Example https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pypa-dev/YMVsRbNoVpg For these reasons I would like to become a maintainer for virtualenv, preferably working with two others on keeping it alive for a couple of years till we could organize a big wake ceremony for it. It would be preferable if two others would join the maintenance "taskforce" because merging a change should almost always involve at least two reviewers. While I cannot make any guarantees regarding dealing with all reported bugs, I can commit on assuring that there are no PRs that are not reviewed for longer than 30 days (aiming for one week). Now there are ~75 open PRs. I have being doing open source for a long time and I respect all the time and efforth put by project maintainers and at the same time I always tried to do my best dealign with incoming PRs because if someone spended his time trying to make a contribution that is passing CI, they probably deserve at least a review. https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/pulls Thanks Sorin Sbarnea @ssbarnea on irc/github/... -- Distutils-SIG mailing list -- distutils-sig@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to distutils-sig-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/distutils-sig.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/mm3/archives/list/distutils-sig@python.org/message/EOXOL3742HVDLAIQDODL36UNRGU4R6SG/
