On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 3:10 PM Stestagg <stest...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 22:50, Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> > wrote: > >> On 19/02/2021 23.22, Stestagg wrote: >> > The thing that stood out from this conversation, for me, is: Releases >> > are too hard, and there’s a risk of not having enough volunteers as a >> > result. >> > >> > How hard is it to fix that? >> >> Actually it's easy to fix! >> >> The PSF needs needs sufficient money to hire a couple of people, so the >> PSF can turn release management and security maintenance from unpaid >> volunteers into paid fulltime jobs. >> > That’s certainly one option. I’d be super surprised if that were the only > one. > > What were the budget requirements for this? How far from the target is the > PSF? Is there a plan to hit it? >
There is no specific drive to hire someone to target security and/or release management at the moment. We just got enough funding for the first time to hire a dev-in-residence for Python itself to try to help tackle our 1.4K PR backlog in some fashion that they won't be dedicated to security or release management. > > Are there no technical solutions that might help reduce the cost? > If you would like to help out, you can speak with the release managers to see if they could use help in some way; same goes for the security team. -Brett > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/55GFSMWJOG7P6NWU4KDHMKJN2OGX5YSG/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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