Re: [Distutils] Migrating interoperability specs to packaging.python.org
On 4 September 2017 at 23:33, Nick Coghlanwrote: > However, I'm also wondering if it may still be worthwhile writing a > metadata 1.3 PEP that does the following things: > > 1. Explicitly notes the addition of the two new fields > 2. Describes the process change for packaging interoperability specifications > 3. Defines a canonical transformation between the human-readable > key:value format and a more automation friendly JSON format Discussing this idea further with Dustin, I now think it's conflating two different activities (one related to process management, one related to actually updating the metadata specification). So I'd suggest that any metadata 1.3 PEP restrict itself to only covering the first point (more formally documenting the two fields added since metadata 1.2) and the last point (defining a standard translation from the Key:Value format to JSON and back). For the process management question around improving traceability in our spec management processes, I'm wondering if it may make sense to write a meta-PEP called just "The Python Packaging Authority" that attempts to better articulate what that term actually encompasses: * The published interoperability specifications at https://packaging.python.org/specifications/ * The process for updating those specifications at https://www.pypa.io/en/latest/specifications/ * Ecosystem & specification level design discussions on distutils-sig * Funding and resource allocation authority delegated from the PSF Board to the Python Packaging Working Group (overseen by the PSF's Director of Operations & Infrastructure Manager) * PyPI operating authority delegated from the PSF Board to the PSF Infrastructure team (overseen by the PSF's Director of Operations & Infrastructure Manager) Such a meta-PEP could also clearly document the limits of Guido's original design delegation back at the 2013 Python Language Summit (i.e. as soon as we need or want to change anything in CPython or the standard library, then that's a change that needs to go through the regular PEP process, not the PyPA/distutils-sig specific variant of it) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
Re: [Distutils] Migrating interoperability specs to packaging.python.org
On 4 September 2017 at 23:33, Nick Coghlanwrote: > Some time ago, I started the process [1] of adjusting how > distutils-sig uses the PEP process so that the reference > specifications will live on packaging.python.org, and we use the PEP > process to manage *changes* to those specifications, rather than > serving as the specifications themselves (that is, adopting a process > closer to the URL-centric way the Python language reference is > managed, rather than using the RFCstyle PEP-number-centric model the > way we do now). I'm happy to report that Dustin Ingram has started making some progress on this change, with https://packaging.python.org/specifications/ now broken out into a set of distinct subpages with appropriate URLs, and https://packaging.python.org/specifications/core-metadata/ now coversing *all* the fields that can appear in PKG-INFO and METADATA files, not just the ones that are post-1.2 additions. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ___ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig