[python-committers] Re: Please make sure you're following good security practices with your GitHub account

2021-06-15 Thread Fred Drake
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 2:08 PM Mariatta wrote: > Thanks for sharing your experience, and I think it's important for us core > developers to be careful and vigilant about this. > Work picked up hardware fobs from Deepnet Security for a lower price. We paid about $16 apiece for 20, but had to go

[python-committers] Re: Possible bug in voting system ? (was: Re: Reminder to vote for the 2020 Steering Council)

2019-12-11 Thread Fred Drake
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 2:31 PM Mariatta wrote: > Re: notifying and sending email to people who were marked as inactive by > the script. > We can send automated email via Zapier. Let me know how I can help with > this part. > I think an automated email to the candidates for removal which is very

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

2018-10-09 Thread Fred Drake
On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 11:25 PM Jack Diederich wrote: > I'm worried about the new format combined with governance discussions. > As best I can tell 51 CPython committers have signed up for an account > [I think that is a big number, btw] but only 17 have posted anything; That > 17 is about 5 more

Re: [python-committers] An alternative governance model

2018-07-18 Thread Fred Drake
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 7:16 PM Mariatta Wijaya wrote: > Next available is PEP lucky number 13 🙂 > As an integer, it has no known problems. What could possibly go wrong? ;-) To bad safe, make sure it lands on a Friday. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. "A storm broke loose in my mind." --

Re: [python-committers] An alternative governance model

2018-07-18 Thread Fred Drake
> On Jul 18, 2018, at 4:14 PM, Mariatta Wijaya > wrote: > Let's be clear that we're not yet at the stage where we can vote for > anything, let alone how to vote. On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 6:03 PM Ɓukasz Langa wrote: > I don't understand what you mean. Before we get to vote on a variant of PEP >

Re: [python-committers] [Python-Dev] Reminder: snapshots and releases coming up in the next several days

2017-09-13 Thread Fred Drake
On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Ned Deily wrote: > Lots of releases coming up soon! There's a "Python Release Schedule" calendar on Google Calendar that used to be maintained, but that appears to have been dropped, though I found it useful. Is there any sort of calendar feed available with thi

Re: [python-committers] Please add your GitHub username to your bugs.python.org account

2016-05-02 Thread Fred Drake
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Perhaps GitHub refuses to send e-mail to the PythonLabs? Interesting hypothesis, but... my invite came by email just fine, and there wasn't any problem once accepted. Perhaps the PSU is involv ___

Re: [python-committers] Reminder: Python 3.4 alpha 1 release is Saturday August 3

2013-08-02 Thread Fred Drake
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Larry Hastings wrote: > From PEP 101, "Doing Python Releases 101": > > IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED THAT YOU AT LEAST TAG THE TREE 24 HOURS > BEFORE A FINAL RELEASE. This will give the Experts enough time to > do their bits before the announcement goes out. > > The sch

Re: [python-committers] Recording committer status in the bug tracker

2011-03-15 Thread Fred Drake
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:22 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > added a boolean flag to the bug tracker indicating what user accounts belong > to committers. I'm showing as a committer, but not that my contributor form has been received. I've pointed out the later problem before (some time ago), an

Re: [python-committers] do we still believe explicit relative imports are bad as PEP 8 claims?

2011-02-18 Thread Fred Drake
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > (especially non-trivial variants such as "from ..foo import bar"). Eeewe. More than one leading "." should be considered a bug.   -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr.    "A storm broke loose in my mind."  --Albert Einstein _

Re: [python-committers] do we still believe explicit relative imports are bad as PEP 8 claims?

2011-02-18 Thread Fred Drake
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > It says they are "highly discouraged" because "absolute imports are > more portable and usually more readable", but now that people have had > a chance to use explicit relative imports, do people still believe > this? I mean if we truly believ

Re: [python-committers] Providing .tgz sources

2010-12-05 Thread Fred Drake
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Fredrik Lundh wrote: > (btw, someone mentioned bandwidth -- are we paying for bandwidth? what > fraction of the python.org traffic is downloads?) Even if the PSF isn't paying for bandwidth (and I don't know either way), users on the other end often are. This is u

Re: [python-committers] Commit privileges for Ɓukasz Langa

2010-09-05 Thread Fred Drake
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > I propose we give commit privileges to Ɓukasz Langa. He has submitted > various non-trivial patches of rather good quality (for example new > features for ConfigParser), some of which have already been committed; +1   -Fred -- Fred L. Dr

Re: [python-committers] Eric Araujo (merwok) as Distutils commiter

2010-08-03 Thread Fred Drake
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Let me point out something fishy: “Fred Drake” is almost an anagram of > “Tarek ZiadĂ©â€. Shhh! Nobody's supposed to know that "F" is spelled "qZ" on my birth certificate!   -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr.   

Re: [python-committers] Eric Araujo (merwok) as Distutils commiter

2010-08-03 Thread Fred Drake
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Tarek Ziadé wrote: > So if everyone agrees Eric gets commit access, and works with me on > Distutils, and I stay the official maintainer +1   -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr.    "A storm broke loose in my mind."  --Albert Einstein __

Re: [python-committers] Xs

2010-06-28 Thread Fred Drake
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Jesse Noller wrote: > Apparently my three year old knows how to work the mail app on my iPhone. Dang! Already tainted by closed-source technologies... -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. "A storm broke loose in my mind." --Albert Einstein _

Re: [python-committers] Untabifying the C codebase

2010-05-11 Thread Fred Drake
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:20 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > Wasn't it the /Grand/ Renaming? Rest assured, the Grand Renaming was a Great and Wondrous Event. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. "Chaos is the score upon which reality is written." --Henry Miller ___

Re: [python-committers] Untabifying the C codebase

2010-05-11 Thread Fred Drake
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > Who remembers the Great Renaming? :) Oooh! Oooh! I know that one! :-) -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. "Chaos is the score upon which reality is written." --Henry Miller ___ python-committ

Re: [python-committers] 3.0rc2 schedule

2008-10-02 Thread Fred Drake
supported by the O/S and filesystem, etc.). Making a convenient, portable API that lets me do that easily is certainly out of scope. -Fred -- Fred Drake ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers

Re: [python-committers] 3.0rc2 schedule

2008-10-02 Thread Fred Drake
Python 3.0? (I can guess, but that just increases the likelihood that I'll be wrong, which I don't like.) -Fred -- Fred Drake ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers

Re: [python-committers] 3.0rc2 schedule

2008-10-02 Thread Fred Drake
t. That's not entirely new, but the fact that so much of these details are being addressed so late in the release cycle *should* give cause for concern, especially to those of use who are still a long way from stepping up to current versions. -Fred -- Fred Drake ___

Re: [python-committers] 3.0rc2 schedule

2008-10-02 Thread Fred Drake
On Oct 2, 2008, at 9:39 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: If you don't make a habit of borking your own filesystems with dodgy filenames, it runs fine. I really hope the individuals making this argument are being facetious. I don't think this is the source of the problem at all. The expect the most

Re: [python-committers] 3.0rc2 schedule

2008-10-02 Thread Fred Drake
On Oct 2, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: A big +1 from me for declaring it still in beta until all the 3.0 release blockers are fixed. +1 from me as well. From what I've read about the pathname issues, I'm pretty worried about the usability of 3.0. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr.