[python-committers] Re: Do people still find this mailing list useful?

2023-07-03 Thread Ethan Furman
On 7/3/23 12:15, Brett Cannon wrote: > So, do people find this list useful enough to keep around, or should we archive it? Let's archive it. -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to

[python-committers] 3.11 feature freeze coming up?

2022-05-02 Thread Ethan Furman
Is this still scheduled for Thursday? -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-committers-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-committers.python.org/ M

[python-committers] Re: New triagers: Slateny, Shantanu, CAM Gerlach, Adam Turner, Pradyun Gedam, Ned Batchelder

2022-05-02 Thread Ethan Furman
On 5/2/22 16:00, Jelle Zijlstra wrote: We have added several new triagers today: Do triagers have access to this list? Regardless, congratulations!! -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org To unsubscribe send a

[python-committers] Re: Consider adding a Tier 3 to tiered platform support

2022-04-06 Thread Ethan Furman
On 4/6/22 11:48, Brett Cannon wrote: Last chance on whether my tier 3 proposal make sense! +1 for Brett's Tier 3 proposal. :-) -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-comm

[python-committers] Re: Requiring PEPs to add/remove modules in the stdlib (and dropping the concept of "provisional")

2022-03-22 Thread Ethan Furman
On 3/22/22 16:26, Brett Cannon wrote: > [...] after discussing things we have three proposals: > > 1. Update PEP 2 to say a PEP is necessary to add a module to the stdlib > 2. Update PEP 4 to say that a PEP is necessary to deprecate/remove a module > 3. Mark PEP 411 as obsolete and thus droppi

[python-committers] Re: list of core-devs, triagers, etc.

2022-02-17 Thread Ethan Furman
On 2/17/22 10:47 AM, Senthil Kumaran wrote: > If the utility value of the list has faded way, archiving the list, and pointing the subgroup to > other active places seems like better idea to me. The list is useful, just for a very small set of people -- namely, those that want to contribute but

[python-committers] Re: list of core-devs, triagers, etc.

2022-02-17 Thread Ethan Furman
On 2/17/22 10:11 AM, Gregory P. Smith wrote: >> - Subscriptions may expire for lack of activity, but resubscribing is welcomed. > > This does not mean we /need/ to expel people due to inactivity. Lurking is one method of learning. And for that we have -list, -ideas, and -dev > If we do want

[python-committers] Re: list of core-devs, triagers, etc.

2022-02-17 Thread Ethan Furman
Accidentally trimmed footnote with link to list info page, so reproducing the page itself here: > Summary > > Python Core Development Mentorship > > The Python Core Development Mentorship list is intended to provide a welcoming introductory > environment for developers interested in contributin

[python-committers] Re: list of core-devs, triagers, etc.

2022-02-17 Thread Ethan Furman
On 2/17/22 8:44 AM, Petr Viktorin wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 4:16 AM Ethan Furman wrote: >> I'm looking to prune the core-mentorship subscriber list as I'm confident 90%+ are folks that >> wanted help learning Python, not folks wanting help to develop Python its

[python-committers] Re: list of core-devs, triagers, etc.

2022-02-14 Thread Ethan Furman
On 2/13/22 9:46 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > Does https://github.com/python/voters/ suffice? That will get me the core-devs, but not the triagers. I will start with that, thanks. Ah, and I see we have a Python Triage team on github as well; that's a small enough list I can add them by hand.

[python-committers] list of core-devs, triagers, etc.

2022-02-13 Thread Ethan Furman
Greetings! Is there a list somewhere of the core developers and triagers? I'm looking to prune the core-mentorship subscriber list as I'm confident 90%+ are folks that wanted help learning Python, not folks wanting help to develop Python itself. Towards that end I want to unsubscribe anyone wh

[python-committers] Re: Welcome Ken Jin to the team!

2021-08-26 Thread Ethan Furman
Welcome! -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-committers-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-committers.python.org/ Message archived at https://m

[python-committers] Re: PSF hires first Developer-in-Residence

2021-07-12 Thread Ethan Furman
On 7/12/21 8:42 AM, Ewa Jodlowska wrote: > Just to circle back, we have officially contracted with Łukasz Langa to be the first CPython Developer-in-Residence! Congratulations, Łukasz! -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list -- python-committer

[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-14 Thread Ethan Furman
On 5/14/21 3:28 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: > I'm always connected to IRC #python-dev (Freenode) for 10 years, a few > other core devs use it time to time. Come to say hello ;-) I've tried the IRC channel -- way too much noise. Talking to bots is not my idea of a python dev chat. My impression

[python-committers] Re: Welcome Irit Katriel to the team!

2021-05-11 Thread Ethan Furman
Congratulations and welcome! -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-committers-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-committers.python.org/ Message ar

[python-committers] Re: CI tests are broken

2021-03-31 Thread Ethan Furman
On 3/31/21 7:29 AM, Ethan Furman wrote: Also note that the tests pass fine locally, suggesting that this is a CI problem. [1] I added (re)imports of Flag to those tests, and it's going through CI now. -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing

[python-committers] Re: CI tests are broken

2021-03-31 Thread Ethan Furman
On 3/31/21 6:59 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: It seems that some of the doc tests are missing imports of e.g. Flag from enum. My understanding of doctest is that the global execution environment is cumulative. For example. the three previous tests, which all pass, are also not reimporting Flag.

[python-committers] Re: CI tests are broken

2021-03-31 Thread Ethan Furman
On 3/31/21 3:52 AM, Mark Shannon wrote: My PR tests are failing seemingly due to some bug in enum.rst Which might be caused by https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/22392 (that's the superficial cause, it might not be the root cause). As far as I can tell, it is not the root cause. I (and ot

[python-committers] Re: Acceptance of Pattern Matching PEPs 634, 635, 636, Rejection of PEPs 640 and 642

2021-02-09 Thread Ethan Furman
On 2/8/21 3:02 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, 8:18 am Terry Reedy wrote: >> The one thing I think needs to be discussed and not been much, at least >> not publicly that I have seen, is whether we really want to go down the >> road of contextual keywords. There are some negatives a

[python-committers] Pattern Matching

2021-02-05 Thread Ethan Furman
Greetings, all! I was wondering if there was any movement on PEPs 634-636? As Guido mentioned on another PEP, time is running out to get this into 3.10. -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org To unsubscribe send

[python-committers] metaclass names and backwards compatibility

2021-01-22 Thread Ethan Furman
The question: Can we change the name of classes if we keep the old name as an alias? The specifics: When Enum was first created for 3.4 I thought the name `EnumMeta` was clever and appropriate. However, in the intervening years an error message has occasionally popped up with mention of an

[python-committers] Re: 2021 Python Steering Council Election Results

2020-12-16 Thread Ethan Furman
On 12/16/20 7:47 AM, raymond.hettin...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations. Yup, congratulations all! Now please hurry up and accept the pattern-matching PEPs. ;-) -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org To unsub

[python-committers] Re: PRs for 3.9

2020-12-12 Thread Ethan Furman
On 12/12/20 5:00 PM, Mariatta wrote: I've deployed a fix in miss-islington (https://github.com/python/miss-islington/pull/421/files) so this should be working again now. I've retriggered backports to several PRs that were stuck. Many thanks! -- ~Ethan~ ___

[python-committers] PRs for 3.9

2020-12-12 Thread Ethan Furman
Greetings! It seems I am unable to create PRs for 3.9. I've tried opening one directly, and I've tried using the needs-backport label. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org To u

[python-committers] Re: Voter Roll for 2020 Steering Council Election (2021 term)

2020-11-30 Thread Ethan Furman
On 11/30/20 11:01 AM, Mariatta wrote: I think the PEP page hasn't been built yet to reflect the latest change. It's in place now. -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-co

[python-committers] Re: Voter Roll for 2020 Steering Council Election (2021 term)

2020-11-30 Thread Ethan Furman
On 11/30/20 10:38 AM, Ernest W. Durbin III wrote: All core devs should review https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8102/#active-python-core-developers Roll not yet finalized -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.o

[python-committers] Re: Welcome Batuhan Taskaya to the team!

2020-11-09 Thread Ethan Furman
Congratulations and welcome! -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-committers-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-committers.python.org/ Message ar

[python-committers] Re: Travis CI is no longer mandatory on Python pull requests

2020-10-18 Thread Ethan Furman
On 10/18/20 1:18 PM, Ned Deily wrote: On Oct 18, 2020, at 15:45, Carol Willing wrote: We've largely moved away from Travis for Jupyter testing in favor of Azure pipelines and CircleCI as Travis was becoming increasingly slow and timing out. Along those lines, if we are basically going to ign

[python-committers] banning core developers -- public or private? [was: Resignation from Stefan Krah]

2020-10-08 Thread Ethan Furman
On 10/8/20 4:07 PM, Thomas Wouters wrote: > Stefan did indeed receive, and was notified of, a 1-year ban from core development. Thank you for clarifying. > This action was based on advice from the Conduct WG and our own deliberations. We > wanted to have a discussion with him before we made t

[python-committers] Re: Resignation from Stefan Krah

2020-10-08 Thread Ethan Furman
On 10/8/20 1:19 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: On 08.10.2020 00:26, Ethan Furman wrote: On 10/7/20 2:47 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Apparently, Stefan Krah (core developer and author of the C _decimal module) was silently banned or moderated from posting to python.org mailing-lists. This seems odd

[python-committers] Re: Resignation from Stefan Krah

2020-10-07 Thread Ethan Furman
On 10/7/20 2:47 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Apparently, Stefan Krah (core developer and author of the C _decimal module) was silently banned or moderated from posting to python.org mailing-lists. This seems odd -- does the Steering Council care to comment? -- ~Ethan~ ___

[python-committers] Re: Welcome Brandt Bucher to the team!

2020-09-17 Thread Ethan Furman
Congratulations, Brandt! -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-committers-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-committers.python.org/ Message archiv

[python-committers] GitHub pull requests

2020-07-09 Thread Ethan Furman
When a PR is merged, is it closed automatically or do we need to do something to close it? -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-committers-le...@python.org https://mail.pyt

[python-committers] Re: Please welcome Lysandros Nikolaou to the team!

2020-06-30 Thread Ethan Furman
Welcome, Lysandros! Great to have you as part of the team! -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-committers-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-co

[python-committers] Re: Python Language Summit 2020 blog posts

2020-05-01 Thread Ethan Furman
On 05/01/2020 09:58 AM, Mariatta wrote: Just wanted to share that the first 7 of 11 blog posts about presentations and discussions from Python Language Summit are now up for your enjoyment. Thanks! -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list -- p

[python-committers] Re: getting old branches/releases

2020-02-11 Thread Ethan Furman
On 02/11/2020 04:04 PM, Mariatta wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 3:49 PM Ethan Furman wrote: I'm trying to get the 3.3 and 3.4 branches so I can check my libraries' compatibility with older versions, but I do not see those branches as being available: How can I get those? 3

[python-committers] getting old branches/releases

2020-02-11 Thread Ethan Furman
Howdy! I'm trying to get the 3.3 and 3.4 branches so I can check my libraries compatibility with older versions, but I do not see those branches as being available: $ git branch --remote 89 remotes/upstream/2.7 remotes/upstream/3.5 remotes/upstream/3.6 remotes/upstream/3.7 remotes/up

[python-committers] Re: Welcome Karthikeyan Singaravelan to the team!

2020-01-03 Thread Ethan Furman
Welcome! :-) -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-committers-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-committers.python.org/ Message archived at http

[python-committers] Re: Possible bug in voting system ?

2019-12-10 Thread Ethan Furman
On 12/10/2019 02:57 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 at 06:52, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: The conversion to an inactive dev is something that core devs need to be asked to agree to, and thus needs to be managed as a status flag, not depend on commits to the repo. All committers were ask

[python-committers] Re: Who wants to be the next tarfile maintainer?

2019-12-03 Thread Ethan Furman
On 12/03/2019 07:27 AM, Lars Gustäbel wrote: My name is Lars Gustäbel. I am the author of the tarfile module, and I have been its maintainer for over ten years. I have not been active in the bugtracker for a long time now, and I don't see that this will change in the future. There are many open

[python-committers] Requirements / Guidelines for module maintainers? [was: PEP 594]

2019-05-31 Thread Ethan Furman
Greetings! I have a non-core dev willing to help maintain the cgi/cgitb modules along with myself. Would this consist of adding the both of us as experts on those modules, and then I would be responsible for the mechanics of approving/merging any PRs? Assuming this individual does well we sh

Re: [python-committers] [OT] email clients

2018-11-03 Thread Ethan Furman
On 11/03/2018 12:32 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: I don’t mean to suggest that my participation is make or break for these lists. If I was the only one who felt this way, then I think it would be fair to say that I’m in the minority and while we want to encourage everyone, we can’t please everyone.

Re: [python-committers] [OT] email clients

2018-11-03 Thread Ethan Furman
On 11/03/2018 11:45 AM, Donald Stufft wrote: I would agree *if* that was the only axis that the two tools differed on. It's enough for me. My participation on Discourse is going to be so low you might think I went emeritus. :/ (Un)fortunately there is a laundry list of improvements over th

Re: [python-committers] Timeline to vote for a governance PEP

2018-11-03 Thread Ethan Furman
On 11/03/2018 03:55 AM, Paul Moore wrote: Frankly, I feel pretty disenfranchised by the process at the moment. +1 -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers C

Re: [python-committers] Moderation of the Python community

2018-10-17 Thread Ethan Furman
On 10/17/2018 03:05 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: Oh, by the way, should we have two different choices: remove the commit bit from a core dev (downgrade a core dev as a regular contributor) and ban a core dev? No. If it comes to this, then the dev needs to be banned. I would not expect this to

Re: [python-committers] discuss.python.org participation

2018-10-16 Thread Ethan Furman
On 10/15/2018 09:22 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > Brett is exactly right about me. I'm following along on Discourse and > this mailing list when I have the time. I plan to read the governance > PEPs and vote when the time comes. But, I don't have anything useful > to say. > > At the sprint, I ve

Re: [python-committers] CoC violation (was: Retire or reword the "Beautiful is better than ugly" Zen clause)

2018-09-21 Thread Ethan Furman
On 09/21/2018 07:51 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Le 21/09/2018 à 14:45, Paul Moore a écrit : It's not likely to be a practical option on a mailing list, but in primary school (which the whole conversation felt like) a likely response would have been to put *everyone* involved in a time-out for a

Re: [python-committers] Fw: CoC violation (was: Retire or reword the "Beautiful is better than ugly" Zen clause)

2018-09-20 Thread Ethan Furman
On 09/20/2018 05:47 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: Which is why I'm hoping we can eventually get a clear enforcement guide written for all the mailing lists and then have a specific group of people manage all of these incident reports and deciding how to handle them for consistency. Otherwise we have

Re: [python-committers] Fw: CoC violation (was: Retire or reword the "Beautiful is better than ugly" Zen clause)

2018-09-20 Thread Ethan Furman
On 09/20/2018 05:06 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 3:35 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: And I have to argue against his use of the n-word* as being part of the reason -- he wasn't calling anybody that, he was using the word as an example of a taboo in one culture that is n

Re: [python-committers] Fw: CoC violation (was: Retire or reword the "Beautiful is better than ugly" Zen clause)

2018-09-20 Thread Ethan Furman
On 09/20/2018 02:17 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: I will also say I didn't voice an opinion or participate in the discussion on the conduct WG when deciding how to handle it (beyond outlining our levels of escalation when handling these situations). One thing missing from the ban notification is th

Re: [python-committers] Recent buildbot.python.org changes

2018-09-14 Thread Ethan Furman
On 09/14/2018 02:02 PM, Zachary Ware wrote: Most of my effort this week has gone into improving the state of buildbot.python.org, which has largely gone into improving Buildbot itself. Excellent! Better tools are always welcome. Thank you! -- ~Ethan~

Re: [python-committers] New core developers: Lisa Roach and Emily Morehouse-Valcarcel

2018-09-14 Thread Ethan Furman
On 09/14/2018 12:28 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: At the developer sprints this week, we collectively decided to grant core committer status to Emily and Lisa. Please join me in welcoming them to the team. Woohoo!!! I thought you two were already core-devs -- I'm happy to see it is now so!

Re: [python-committers] I have blocked someone from the Python org

2018-09-13 Thread Ethan Furman
Thanks, Brett. -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/

Re: [python-committers] And Now for Something Completely Different

2018-07-19 Thread Ethan Furman
On 07/19/2018 04:47 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: or: Replace Dictatorship with Democracy. Hi, == Introduction: unjustified fears? == I see that many people are eager to replace the old governance based on a single BDFL with a new governance with a new BD(FL) and/or a council. My problem is that

Re: [python-committers] Proposal: an explicit, time-limited moratorium on finalizing any governance decisions

2018-07-18 Thread Ethan Furman
On 07/18/2018 09:40 PM, Carol Willing wrote: I am in favor of a time limit. Yet, October 1 seems a bit too long for the initial governance decision (i.e. how to decide how to decide). My perspective, based on transitions in non-profits and the corporate world, is that the longer an organization

Re: [python-committers] Proposal: an explicit, time-limited moratorium on finalizing any governance decisions

2018-07-18 Thread Ethan Furman
On 07/18/2018 08:45 PM, Łukasz Langa wrote:> >> On Jul 18, 2018, at 9:36 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: >> >> I propose: no governance decisions finalized before October >> 1, 2018. > > +1 but it's okay and expected that discussions here will continue in the interim. Absolutely! Without continuing

Re: [python-committers] Proposal: an explicit, time-limited moratorium on finalizing any governance decisions

2018-07-18 Thread Ethan Furman
On 07/18/2018 07:36 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: [tl;dr: We need some ground rules, because uncertainty makes it hard to think straight. But if we get sucked into a complicated meta-debate about the ground rules then that defeats the purpose. My proposal for a Minimum Viable Ground Rule: let's all

Re: [python-committers] An alternative governance model

2018-07-18 Thread Ethan Furman
On 07/18/2018 09:36 AM, Łukasz Langa wrote: On Jul 18, 2018, at 10:58 AM, Ethan Furman wrote: If we, by majority vote, pick a governance model (dictator, council, or >> whatever), then that legitimizes it. If we, by majority vote, pick the >> new BDFL, then that legitimize

Re: [python-committers] An alternative governance model

2018-07-18 Thread Ethan Furman
On 07/18/2018 03:04 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Hi Ethan, Le 18/07/2018 à 11:49, Ethan Furman a écrit : You're creating a huge problem here. Whatever dictator you come up with, not everyone will be ok with that choice. What are they supposed to do? If one doesn't think X is legit

Re: [python-committers] An alternative governance model

2018-07-18 Thread Ethan Furman
On 07/17/2018 07:02 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: TL;DR: I propose keeping a singular BDFL and adding a Council of Advisors > that helps the BDFL in various capacities, with additional responsibilities. Having a singular BDFL certainly has its advantages, and from my interactions with Brett I certai

Re: [python-committers] An alternative governance model

2018-07-18 Thread Ethan Furman
On 07/18/2018 01:43 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Le 18/07/2018 à 04:02, Barry Warsaw a écrit : If you’ve read this far - thank you! Now for the big reveal. I think the >> Next BDFL should be… (drum roll)… Brett Cannon Since you're opening this can of worms, I'll say it: - I'm -1 on a new

Re: [python-committers] Transfer of power

2018-07-13 Thread Ethan Furman
On 07/13/2018 06:54 PM, Tim Peters wrote: Or, short of that, by an approval vote of the Fellows (whatever it is we call for-real PSF members these days). Forgive my ignorance, but how does one become a PSF member? -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers

Re: [python-committers] possible future PEP discussion format [was: Transfer of power]

2018-07-13 Thread Ethan Furman
On 07/13/2018 11:21 AM, Ethan Furman wrote: [...] Sorry, was trying to generate a new thread. Please respond to that one instead. -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo

[python-committers] possible future PEP discussion format [was: Transfer of power]

2018-07-13 Thread Ethan Furman
On 07/12/2018 01:27 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > For the bigger decisions (and there aren't many coming up), I have some > suggestions on ways to improve the discussions so that the interested > parties can have a more equal say in the outcome and so that the > discussions can be more time effi

[python-committers] possible future PEP discussion format [was: Transfer of power]

2018-07-13 Thread Ethan Furman
On 07/12/2018 01:27 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: For the bigger decisions (and there aren't many coming up), I have some > suggestions on ways to improve the discussions so that the interested > parties can have a more equal say in the outcome and so that the > discussions can be more time effi

Re: [python-committers] Transfer of power

2018-07-12 Thread Ethan Furman
On 07/12/2018 12:28 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: On Jul 12, 2018, at 12:16, Brett Cannon wrote: Maybe another way to label this is design stewards? We seem to be >> suggesting a cabal of folks who steward the overall design while >> relying on experts as appropriate to handle finer details. I li

Re: [python-committers] Transfer of power

2018-07-12 Thread Ethan Furman
Guido, Thank you for creating Python. Thank you for giving me a second chance when I mouthed off to you. Thank you for trusting us enough to leave this great project in our hands. Thank you. -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list python-commi

Re: [python-committers] A different way to focus discussions

2018-07-11 Thread Ethan Furman
On 07/11/2018 09:25 AM, Mariatta Wijaya wrote: Sorry to bring up this old topic. I'm trying to decide how to handle discussions for PEP 581, and I'm open to try out new things :) Are we all still content with posting to python-dev? I was thinking in addition to a thread in python-dev, I want t

Re: [python-committers] Introduction - Pablo Galindo Salgado

2018-06-20 Thread Ethan Furman
Welcome!! I remember how excited I was to be offered a core-dev position. It really is a cool thing. On 06/20/2018 08:30 AM, Pablo Galindo Salgado wrote: Thank you everyone for you support and for your work improving Python and the Python community! Thank you for be willing to join in tha

Re: [python-committers] Changing commiter status

2018-06-19 Thread Ethan Furman
On 06/19/2018 11:14 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Ok, let me be even clearer :-) While I understand that there is a need to show the world that we need more active core devs, this drive to shelve existing developers is not a good way to achieve this. Here's a simple approach which is effective with

Re: [python-committers] Changing commiter status

2018-06-19 Thread Ethan Furman
On 06/19/2018 11:17 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 at 17:56 Guido van Rossum wrote: I'd do it as follows. This basically makes withdrawal voluntary unless >> they don't respond at all. 1. Make a list of people who've not shown any sign of activity (on the >> b.p.o. or GitHub,

[python-committers] number of active core devs [was: Comments on moving issues to GitHub]

2018-06-02 Thread Ethan Furman
On 06/02/2018 12:46 PM, Mariatta Wijaya wrote: And perhaps this is to be discussed in a separate thread: even though in the b.p.o we appear to have 170 committers, really there are 90 core devs (people who has commit right to CPython on GitHub). and out of those 90, I think only about half are

Re: [python-committers] A different way to focus discussions

2018-05-23 Thread Ethan Furman
On 05/22/2018 06:06 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 05:58:39PM -0400, Donald Stufft wrote: On May 22, 2018, at 5:50 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: One of the problems with PEP 572 was that the discussion was fractured across multiple threads on two mailing lists, leading to the

Re: [python-committers] Proposing Mark Shannon to be a core developer

2018-05-14 Thread Ethan Furman
On 05/14/2018 01:41 PM, Larry Hastings wrote: Dr. Mark Shannon contributed the "key sharing dictionary" to Python, writing both the PEP and the implementation. This shipped in Python 3.3 and was listed as one of the top features of that release as according to the "What's New?" document. We'

Re: [python-committers] Poll: Do you like the PEP 572 Assignment Expressions?

2018-05-08 Thread Ethan Furman
With Tim's and Guido's latest suggestions, +1 -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/

[python-committers] missing email thread [was: Welcoming Petr ...]

2018-04-23 Thread Ethan Furman
On 04/23/2018 09:37 AM, Christian Heimes wrote:> On 2018-04-23 17:43, Ethan Furman wrote: >> On 04/23/2018 07:39 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >>> With my recent proposal to accept Petr Viktorin as a specialist core >>> developer focusing on extension module imports receiv

Re: [python-committers] Welcoming Petr Viktorin as our newest core developer :)

2018-04-23 Thread Ethan Furman
On 04/23/2018 07:39 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: With my recent proposal to accept Petr Viktorin as a specialist core developer focusing on extension module imports receiving several +1's and no concerns being raised, Where did this conversation take place? I see no record of it here nor on the Z

Re: [python-committers] trivial tag on GitHub?

2018-01-26 Thread Ethan Furman
On 01/26/2018 01:09 PM, Ned Deily wrote: On Jan 26, 2018, at 16:05, Ethan Furman wrote: On 01/26/2018 09:28 AM, Mariatta Wijaya wrote: So when the original PR didn't have a news entry, what should I have seen to alert me to that? If a news entry is missing from the PR, the CI che

Re: [python-committers] trivial tag on GitHub?

2018-01-26 Thread Ethan Furman
On 01/26/2018 09:28 AM, Mariatta Wijaya wrote: So when the original PR didn't have a news entry, what should I have seen to alert me to that? If a news entry is missing from the PR, the CI check at the bottom of the PR will fail. You should see the following: bedevere/news -- No news ent

Re: [python-committers] trivial tag on GitHub?

2018-01-26 Thread Ethan Furman
On 01/26/2018 12:45 AM, Terry Reedy wrote: On 1/26/2018 1:28 AM, Ethan Furman wrote: I created a new pull request to add a forgotten news entry, and now it's going through all the pre-checks, etc. I seem to recall we could add a "trivial" tag to an issue to skip those. Is

[python-committers] trivial tag on GitHub?

2018-01-25 Thread Ethan Furman
I created a new pull request to add a forgotten news entry, and now it's going through all the pre-checks, etc. I seem to recall we could add a "trivial" tag to an issue to skip those. Is that still true, and if so, how? -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-commit

Re: [python-committers] Let's give commit privileges to Nathaniel J. Smith

2018-01-24 Thread Ethan Furman
On 01/24/2018 03:23 PM, Yury Selivanov wrote: I want to propose granting commit privileges to Nathaniel J. Smith. I also thought he was already. Definitely +1 ! -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mai

Re: [python-committers] Python workflow quirks with mercurial and hg-git extension

2018-01-24 Thread Ethan Furman
On 01/20/2018 11:19 AM, Jesus Cea wrote: I plan to come back to python development (about time!) but I truly hates git. I am experimenting with mercurial + hg-git extension and it is quite usable (after the initial painfully slow clone time), but I am having small quirks that I would like to iron

Re: [python-committers] RFC: Process to become a core developer

2017-12-07 Thread Ethan Furman
On 12/07/2017 10:01 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: Note: I'm trying to avoid gender to be inclusive when mentioning a contributor by using "they" or "their". I'm not sure that it's correct in english, since english is not my first language. Is "they" acceptable to identify a single contributor, or is

Re: [python-committers] Promote Julien Palard as core developer

2017-12-07 Thread Ethan Furman
On 12/06/2017 04:48 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: I propose to promote Julien Palard as a core developer. I know that Julien doesn't have the typical profile of core developers, only or mostly contribute to the code: Julien is currently focused on the doculmentation. Good documentation is hard.

Re: [python-committers] Adding Ivan Levkivskyi as a core committer

2017-12-06 Thread Ethan Furman
Ivan, Welcome! Glad to have you! -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/

Re: [python-committers] Cheryl Sabella was promoted to get bug triage permission

2017-12-06 Thread Ethan Furman
On 12/06/2017 09:43 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: Congrats Cheryl! Possibly a dumb question, but is Cheryl on this list? -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committer

Re: [python-committers] Adding Ivan Levkivskyi as a core committer

2017-12-05 Thread Ethan Furman
On 12/05/2017 05:00 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: I'd like to propose Ivan Levkivskyi as a new core committer. I thought he already was one. +1 to bring him in! -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.

[python-committers] link from github to bpo?

2017-06-21 Thread Ethan Furman
My apologies if this has been discussed/answered before, but is there a link from the github side to the bpo side? For example, I'm looking at https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/2304 and it would be great if such a link existed to take me directly to the bpo issue. -- ~Ethan~ _

Re: [python-committers] Revert changes which break too many buildbots

2017-06-16 Thread Ethan Furman
On 06/16/2017 09:48 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: Maybe we should amend PEP 11 to say that whomever volunteers to maintain a platform > must make sure that platform's buildbot is not red for longer than a month [...] How about three? Some life changes need more than a month to recover from... (de

Re: [python-committers] Revert changes which break too many buildbots

2017-06-14 Thread Ethan Furman
On 06/14/2017 02:07 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: I’m +1 on reverting the change, I’d even go so far to say I’d be +1 on doing it as a first response. It’s always possible to revert the revert once the person who committed the patch has time to investigate the failure and recommit the patch with a

Re: [python-committers] Proposing Carol Willing to become a core developer

2017-05-23 Thread Ethan Furman
On 05/23/2017 11:15 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: While at the PyCon US sprints the idea came up of offering Carol Willing developer privileges I've always been impressed with her interactions. +1 -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list python-com

Re: [python-committers] Github reviews are cannibalizing BPO

2017-05-01 Thread Ethan Furman
On 05/01/2017 03:32 PM, Christian Heimes wrote: With Github I'm seeing a major paradigm shift. New contributors tend to use BPO as ticket number dispenser. Actual discussion seems to happen mostly on Github PRs. For me it makes it harder to follow discussion > [...] I don't have any answers, b

Re: [python-committers] Codecov and PR

2017-04-26 Thread Ethan Furman
On 04/26/2017 10:35 PM, Terry Reedy wrote: On 4/26/2017 1:45 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: :) But they are at least executed which is what we're really measuring here and I think all Ethan and I are advocating for. I thought Ethan was advocating for more -- a specific unittest for each line. I'

Re: [python-committers] Codecov and PR

2017-04-26 Thread Ethan Furman
On 04/25/2017 11:05 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: On 04/25/2017 10:15 PM, INADA Naoki wrote: `self.initfp()` is very unlikely raise exceptions. But MemoryError, KeyboardInterrupt or other rare exceptions may be happen. unittest.mock helps a lot to test such corner case: mock initfp(

Re: [python-committers] Codecov and PR

2017-04-26 Thread Ethan Furman
On 04/25/2017 10:15 PM, INADA Naoki wrote: This is one examples I merged "untested line of code". https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/162/files#diff-0ad86c44e7866421ecaa5ad2c0edb0e2R552 +file_object = builtins.open(f, 'wb') +try: +self.initfp(file_obje

Re: [python-committers] Codecov and PR

2017-04-24 Thread Ethan Furman
On 04/21/2017 03:29 PM, Victor Stinner wrote: I dislike code coverage because there is a temptation to write artficial tests whereas the code is tested indirectly or the code is not important enough to *require* tests. If it's not important enough to require tests it's not important enough to

Re: [python-committers] I have blocked Wes Turner from the Python org on GitHub

2017-04-01 Thread Ethan Furman
On 04/01/2017 02:16 AM, Paul Moore wrote: On 1 April 2017 at 09:17, Antoine Pitrou wrote: But even if that *is* the case, there comes a point where treating all participants equally does mean we're OK to say "sorry, you're being unproductive and that won't change, so we can't work with you" re

Re: [python-committers] REMINDER: GitHub migration is scheduled for today

2017-02-10 Thread Ethan Furman
On 02/10/2017 07:55 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: Assume you can't commit to Mercurial anymore and the next email from me will either be an introduction email to our new workflow or me apologizing for something going horribly wrong. Either way I'm hoping you will hear from me later today. :) Eith

Re: [python-committers] New team member intro

2017-01-31 Thread Ethan Furman
On 01/30/2017 03:10 PM, Mariatta Wijaya wrote: Looking forward contributing more and working with everyone here :) Welcome and congratulations! -- ~Ethan~ ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailma

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