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

2022-04-09 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 09.04.2022 02:13, Brett Cannon wrote: On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 5:03 AM Marc-Andre Lemburg > wrote: On 06.04.2022 20:48, Brett Cannon wrote: > Last chance on whether my tier 3 proposal make sense! I will take silence as > acceptance and plan to conver

[python-committers] Re: PEP 563 and Python 3.10.

2021-04-21 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 21.04.2021 13:35, Paul Moore wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 at 12:24, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> >> Isn't that an educational problem ? Adjusting reporting of >> warnings isn't all that hard: >> >> https://docs.python.org/3/library/warnings.html#th

[python-committers] Re: PEP 563 and Python 3.10.

2021-04-21 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 21.04.2021 13:14, Paul Moore wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 at 12:05, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> Perhaps we should reconsider making deprecation warnings only >> visible by explicitly enabling them and instead make them visible >> by default. >> >> This would

[python-committers] Re: PEP 563 and Python 3.10.

2021-04-21 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 21.04.2021 12:16, Thomas Wouters wrote: > The idea that we should warn before significant changes to behaviour -- > documented behaviour, like function annotations being evaluated at definition > time, or behaviour commonly depended on, like 'with' being allowed as an > identifier because it was

[python-committers] Re: CI tests are broken

2021-03-31 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 31.03.2021 16:29, Ethan Furman wrote: > 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

[python-committers] Re: CI tests are broken

2021-03-31 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 31.03.2021 15:54, Ethan Furman wrote: > Because I could not find any error in the documentation that would cause the > problem (the first three cases succeeded, using the same construct). > >> Why is that even allowed? > > Because the tests are not perfect. > > I did post a message to python-

[python-committers] Re: Publish better than md5sums of Python builds?

2021-03-17 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 17.03.2021 18:53, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2021, at 09:29, Victor Stinner wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 9:16 PM Gregory P. Smith wrote: >>> The benefit of listing the sha256 for files is that it prevents this >>> question coming up again and again because md5 is old

[python-committers] Re: Python Core Developer Status Inquiry

2020-11-26 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
https://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ https://www.malemburg.com/ On 18.11.2020 16:44, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > I've sent a reminder to these core devs: > > Alexandre Vassalotti > Amaury Forgeot d'Arc > Armin Ronacher >

[python-committers] Re: Python Core Developer Status Inquiry

2020-11-19 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 18.11.2020 16:52, Paul Moore wrote: > I'm pretty sure I saw an email from Steven D'Aprano on this list recently. Yes, this was a mistake on my part. I forgot to merge master into my branch before running the script. Sorry. > On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 15:44, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

[python-committers] Re: Python Core Developer Status Inquiry

2020-11-18 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
ed, Nov 18, 2020 at 7:44 AM M.-A. Lemburg <mailto:m...@egenix.com>> wrote: > > I've sent a reminder to these core devs: > >      Alexandre Vassalotti >      Amaury Forgeot d'Arc >      Armin Ronacher >      David Wolever >    

[python-committers] Re: Python Core Developer Status Inquiry

2020-11-18 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Meador Inge PJ Eby Philip Jenvey Sjoerd Mullender Steven D'Aprano Thomas Heller Trent Nelson who have not replied yet. The deadline is Nov 25 AoE, when I'll merge the PR with the updates: https://github.com/python/voters/pull/30 Thanks. On 11.11.2020

[python-committers] Re: Python Core Developer Status Inquiry

2020-11-11 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 11.11.2020 22:04, Guido van Rossum wrote: > I wonder what Marc-André Lemburg is going to respond... :-) I already did :-) People who replied with "stay active" will receive an email as well and the list below is proof that it works as indented ;-) > On Wed, Nov 11, 2020

[python-committers] Python Core Developer Status Inquiry

2020-11-11 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
FYI: I have sent out the Python Code Developer status inquiries to these core developers, which have not committed to the CPython Github repo in the last two years and for which we don't have a status answer using the new inactivity reply feature in the voter roll script yet: Alex Martelli

[python-committers] Re: Making it easier to track who is currently considered "active" for voting

2020-10-23 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
FYI: There's a ticket open to address the remaining missing parts of the process that is defined in PEP 13 vs. the what the voting script implements: https://github.com/python/voters/issues/16 I've implemented some extra logic to enable tracking the inactivity status as per PER 13 and creating a

[python-committers] Re: Performance benchmarks for 3.9

2020-10-15 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 15.10.2020 15:50, Victor Stinner wrote: > Le mer. 14 oct. 2020 à 17:59, Antoine Pitrou a écrit : >> unpack-sequence is a micro-benchmark. (...) > > I suggest removing it. > > I removed other similar micro-benchmarks from pyperformance in the > past, since they can easily be misunderstood and

[python-committers] Re: Performance benchmarks for 3.9

2020-10-15 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 14.10.2020 16:14, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le 14/10/2020 à 15:16, Pablo Galindo Salgado a écrit : >> Hi! >> >> I have updated the branch benchmarks in the pyperformance server and now >> they include 3.9. There are >> some benchmarks that are faster but on the other hand some benchmarks >> are su

[python-committers] Re: Performance benchmarks for 3.9

2020-10-14 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 14.10.2020 17:59, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Le 14/10/2020 à 17:25, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit : >> >> Well, there's a trend here: >> >> [...] >> >> Those two benchmarks were somewhat faster in Py3.7 and got slower in 3.8 >> and then again in 3.

[python-committers] Re: Performance benchmarks for 3.9

2020-10-14 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
gt; automated and it didn't run in a long time :( Make sense. Would it be possible rerun the tests with the current setup for say the last 1000 revisions or perhaps a subset of these (e.g. every 10th revision) to try to binary search for the revision which introduced the change ? >

[python-committers] Re: Performance benchmarks for 3.9

2020-10-14 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Hi Pablo, thanks for pointing this out. Would it be possible to get the data for older runs back, so that it's easier to find the changes which caused the slowdown ? Going to the timeline, it seems that the system only has data for Oct 14 (today): https://speed.python.org/timeline/#/?exe=12&ben

[python-committers] Re: Resignation from Stefan Krah

2020-10-08 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
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 -- does the Steering Council c

[python-committers] Re: Farewell, Python 3.5

2020-10-01 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Thank you, Larry and the whole release team, for putting so much work into this ! On 01.10.2020 19:49, Larry Hastings wrote: > > At last!  Python 3.5 has now officially reached its end-of-life.  Since there > have been no checkins or PRs since I tagged 3.5.10, 3.5.10 will stand as the > final rel

[python-committers] Re: MSDN Subscription renewals

2020-08-13 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 13.08.2020 21:18, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 11:04 AM Zachary Ware wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 12:29 PM Steve Dower wrote: >>> While most of the tooling necessary for working on CPython is freely >>> available (as Visual Studio Community), this will also include

[python-committers] Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant & EuroPython

2020-05-26 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Dear follow core developers, I would like to invite you to attend this year's EuroPython conference: https://ep2020.europython.eu/ The conference will be held online from July 23-26 and we took special care to add slots which can easily be followed from pretty all around the world. The first tw

[python-committers] Re: Language Summit

2020-04-16 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Thanks for sending those references. On 4/16/2020 2:04 PM, Pablo Galindo Salgado wrote: > Here are the slides for our talk about the new PEG parser: > > https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1N_GaMjrLt1HUicbSwqC6QWGB751qj2RqtEqo_lGI0js/edit?usp=drivesdk > > Pablo > > On Thu, 16 Apr 2020, 12:44

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

2019-12-12 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 11.12.2019 20:19, Brett Cannon wrote: > As for the "please email everyone personally", I just don't have the time to > email 30 people that Giampolo listed or the 89 total people who could vote > but didn't commit or author something in the past two years . But do note > that me lacking the t

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

2019-12-11 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 11.12.2019 00:58, Brett Cannon wrote: > We discussed the situation on the steering council and we are fine with > making an exception for folks who felt caught off-guard asking Ernest to be > added to the voter roll even though voting has already started. Thanks. > In the new year I will wor

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

2019-12-11 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 10.12.2019 23:57, 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

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

2019-12-10 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
I had been waiting for the ballot email, but have not received any. I then checked the voters list and came across this section in the readme: """ According to PEP 13, active membership is defined as "any non-trivial contribution in two years". As such, the coredev active command will create a pi

[python-committers] Re: PEP 13 and approval voting.

2019-10-20 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Hi Thomas, to get more votes, it may help to start a new thread specifically for voting and prefixing the subject with "ACTION NEEDED: Please vote - ". We're using this approach in several PSF WGs and it's working better than voting emails deep inside discussion threads. Cheers, -- Marc-Andre L

[python-committers] Re: proposed canonical list of Python core team members

2019-07-15 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Note that details about commits predating opening up the repository for external commits which happened sometime in 2000 IIRC are not necessarily correct. Before opening up the repo, patches were submitted to the repo via the team around Guido. This Misc/ACKS file was used in those times to give c

Re: [python-committers] Promote Mark Sapiro and Abhilash Raj as core developers

2019-05-14 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
I think Mark and Abhilash would be the perfect choice to (help) maintain the email package. They have done a great job on making sure Mailman works for us and know from real world experience what the issues are you face nowadays with email (such as having to deal with the wonderful technology call

Re: [python-committers] [Python-Dev] Farewell, Python 3.4

2019-05-08 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Thank you for having been 3.4 release manager, Larry ! On 08.05.2019 17:36, Larry Hastings wrote: > > It's with a note of sadness that I announce the final retirement of > Python 3.4.  The final release was back in March, but I didn't get > around to actually closing and deleting the 3.4 branch u

Re: [python-committers] Votes on new core dev candidates

2019-03-26 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 26.03.2019 18:54, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Le 26/03/2019 à 09:58, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit : >> >>>> Asking people who have voted -1 or +1 to publicly tell the world why >>>> they did so is not helpful in this respect, since it just creates bias. >>

Re: [python-committers] Vote to promote Stéphane Wirtel as a core dev

2019-03-26 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 26.03.2019 05:20, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > >> On Mar 22, 2019, at 8:34 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: >> >> Julien Palard and me (Victor) propose to promote Stéphane Wirtel as >> core developer. We open a vote until March 31 (~one week). "[A >> promotion] is granted by receiving at least two-thir

Re: [python-committers] Votes on new core dev candidates

2019-03-26 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 25.03.2019 23:58, Steve Dower wrote: > On 25Mar2019 1503, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> On 25.03.2019 16:20, Steve Dower wrote: >>> To be clear, my pushback (on Discourse, since I can only send email from >>> an actual laptop these days but can participate over there

Re: [python-committers] Votes on new core dev candidates

2019-03-25 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 25.03.2019 16:20, Steve Dower wrote: > On 25Mar2019 0217, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> I must say, I'm a bit surprised by the discussion around the voting >> process and the candidates. >> >> First, we've been complaining about lack of core devs for a long >

Re: [python-committers] Votes on new core dev candidates

2019-03-25 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
I must say, I'm a bit surprised by the discussion around the voting process and the candidates. First, we've been complaining about lack of core devs for a long time. Now we have two great candidates with proven track record of contributing to Python and people complain again. As a small group, we

Re: [python-committers] Vote to promote Stéphane Wirtel as a core dev

2019-03-22 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
+1 (not exactly sure how the vote would work, so at this point just an indication of support) On 22.03.2019 16:40, Victor Stinner wrote: > Oh. I forgot to mention that I offer to mentor Stéphane once he would > become a core dev for 1 month for help him to deal with his new > responsibilities. I w

[python-committers] Learning from PostgreSQL community: How to address the review bottleneck

2019-02-04 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
I've attended FOSDEM over the weekend, where Jon Conway (one of the PostgreSQL committers) gave a talk about, among other things, the PG community and how it is structured: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/postgresql11/ (the community part starts at around 8 min into the video) What struck

Re: [python-committers] Fwd: EPS: Announcing the Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant

2019-02-04 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Happy to see that you like the idea. Our hope is that more conferences will pick it up as well. On 31.01.2019 18:41, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > >> On Jan 31, 2019, at 2:15 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> >> To help with growing the team, putting it more into the spot

[python-committers] Fwd: EPS: Announcing the Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant

2019-01-31 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
FYI... perhaps you now understand why I was keen to get the committers listed somewhere :-) Forwarded Message Subject: EPS: Announcing the Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 10:25:52 +0100 From: M.-A. Lemburg Organization: EuroPython Society (EPS) To

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

2018-11-15 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 15.11.2018 19:39, Barry Warsaw wrote: > Based on my suggestion on Discourse, I propose that the period between > tomorrow and November 30th be an official PEP review period, with voting > postponed to December 1 - 16 AOE 2018. > > https://github.com/python/peps/pull/841 > > I am personally g

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

2018-11-15 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 15.11.2018 19:55, Brett Cannon wrote: > > It seems like we're completely skipping the review phase of the > regular PEP process and going straight from PEP writing to > a vote: > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0001/#id38 > > which is odd given the importance of this

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

2018-11-15 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
I find it rather unusual that we are pushed to vote on PEPs which will just have been finished in writing tonight. Shouldn't people who were not involved in the individual creation processes at least get two weeks to review the final work to make up their mind before entering a voting period ? It

Re: [python-committers] python-committers is dead, long live discuss.python.org

2018-10-09 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
which won’t set them to watching, but will email you for *only* > the first post in any new topic, unless you set a topic to watching after > that. Thanks, I'll give that a try. >> On Oct 8, 2018, at 9:29 PM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> >> FYI: I did sign up on Disco

Re: [python-committers] python-committers is dead, long live discuss.python.org

2018-10-09 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 09.10.2018 05:33, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > > >> On 9 Oct 2018, at 03:29, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> >> FYI: I did sign up on Discourse and have enabled email notifications, >> but it seems that you have to do this on a per forum entry basis, >> since I hav

Re: [python-committers] python-committers is dead, long live discuss.python.org

2018-10-08 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
o discuss.python.org and to python-committers... And now we > can enjoy discussions splitted between the two :-) > > Victor > Le sam. 29 sept. 2018 à 09:50, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit : >> >> On 29.09.2018 03:21, Barry Warsaw wrote: >>> On Sep 28, 2018, at 15:03, Victo

Re: [python-committers] python-committers is dead, long live discuss.python.org

2018-09-29 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 29.09.2018 11:40, Łukasz Langa wrote: > >> On Sep 29, 2018, at 09:53, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >> Especially on the eve of critical governance discussions that will heavily >> impact the future of python-dev. > > Ironically it's the very gravity of those upcoming discussions that made us > de

Re: [python-committers] python-committers is dead, long live discuss.python.org

2018-09-29 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 29.09.2018 03:21, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Sep 28, 2018, at 15:03, Victor Stinner wrote: > >> It seems like anyone can subscribe. Is the Committer group reserved to >> core developers? If yes, how do you know which accounts are linked to >> core developers? > > You must be approved to join py

Re: [python-committers] [PEP 8013] The External Council Governance Model

2018-09-26 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Thanks, Steve, for writing this up: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8013/ A couple of comments: I like the council model, but don't understand why the core developers should be stripped from any decision powers. External people will not have the institutional knowledge core developers have,

Re: [python-committers] 1 week to Oct 1

2018-09-26 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Could the authors of those PEPs please at least publish a rough outline of what their model is all about ? It doesn't help if we set a deadline only to find that we should have written up a competing PEP shortly before the deadline passes. The only text we have at this point is PEP 8013: https://

Re: [python-committers] Council / board (Was: 1 week to Oct 1)

2018-09-25 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 25.09.2018 16:28, Mariatta Wijaya wrote: > My proposal is taking into consideration The PSF's mission and diversity > statement. I will not remove the diversity clause from PEP 8011. I cannot comment on what you actually have in PEP 8011 as diversity clause, since the page is just a placeholder

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

2018-09-25 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 21.09.2018 14:59, Paul Moore wrote: > Balance, forgiveness, and a mature level of empathy are what's > *really* needed ("among the things that are needed...":-)). Not > policies. Policies should be weapons of last resort. Agreed. I guess we'll also have to learn that flamebait as we had it in

Re: [python-committers] List of all core developers

2018-08-03 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
nition of it > being a lifetime title), then the subscription list for this mailing list > is probably good enough with some manual grooming as long we are okay with > long-dormant folk who predate this list not voting (which I'm personally > fine with). But if we wanted a w

Re: [python-committers] List of all core developers

2018-08-03 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 02.08.2018 23:16, Brett Cannon wrote: > On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 at 00:32 M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> On 02.08.2018 03:24, Eric V. Smith wrote: >>> On 8/1/2018 8:32 PM, Mariatta Wijaya wrote: >>>> I think it would also be a good idea to include core de

Re: [python-committers] List of all core developers

2018-08-03 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 02.08.2018 23:07, Brett Cannon wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 at 14:44 M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> On 01.08.2018 23:28, Mariatta Wijaya wrote: >>> See also an open issue to revamp the Developer log: >>> https://github.com/python/devguide/issues/390 >>>

Re: [python-committers] List of all core developers

2018-08-02 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 02.08.2018 03:24, Eric V. Smith wrote: > On 8/1/2018 8:32 PM, Mariatta Wijaya wrote: >>     I think it would also be a good idea to include core developers >>     of other Python implementations in such a document, in >>     separate sections, e.g. for Jython, IronPython, PyPy, >>     Stackless,

Re: [python-committers] List of all core developers

2018-08-01 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
clude core developers of other Python implementations in such a document, in separate sections, e.g. for Jython, IronPython, PyPy, Stackless, etc. > Mariatta > > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 2:15 PM M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> It's become fairly obvious that we are missi

[python-committers] List of all core developers

2018-08-01 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
It's become fairly obvious that we are missing a list of core developers on some site. One we can use as reference and one which core devs can also show to other to prove they are core developers. I guess the natural place for such a list is the dev guide, but we could also use a page on www.pytho

Re: [python-committers] Reminder of BDFL succession timeline + CFP

2018-08-01 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Thanks for your action plan, Mariatta, but I'm -1 on having strict timelines for these processes. We need to gradually approach a new model as we've done in the past decades and not push for any possibly borked model right from the start. The processes for this need to stay flexible, easy to adapt

Re: [python-committers] An alternative governance model

2018-07-18 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
I find this discussion really interesting from a social perspective. Let's keep it going for a while without jumping to any conclusions. It's too early to head down into one particular rabbit hole yet ;-) There's no rush and if things crystallize only in a year's time, that's perfectly fine. (And

Re: [python-committers] Changing commiter status

2018-06-19 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 19.06.2018 18:39, Brett Cannon wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 at 12:41 M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> On 18.06.2018 21:07, Guido van Rossum wrote: >>> Hm, unless I misunderstood, MAL's >>> >>>> Being a core developer of Python is a status >>

Re: [python-committers] Changing commiter status

2018-06-18 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
th. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ http://www.malemburg.com/ > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 11:59 AM Brett Cannon wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 at 06

Re: [python-committers] Changing commiter status (was: Missing In Action)

2018-06-18 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Victor: please make sure that you contact the developers whos status you intend to modify prior to doing so. Being a core developer of Python is a status and not something that should be changed without consent by the developer in question. Also note that the dev list log doesn't include all core

[python-committers] Comments on moving issues to GitHub

2018-06-02 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Reading the comments in the thread and having used Github issues myself for a few years now, I find the idea of moving from a dedicated issue tracker we can easily customize to our needs (or hire someone to do so via the PSF) to a simplistic tracker add-on, which Github issues is, not a very promis

Re: [python-committers] Marking issues as "Release Blocker" priority (was Re: FINAL WEEK FOR 3.7.0 CHANGES!)

2018-05-30 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
In terms of process, it's always good to have a method to escalate a question to higher management in a way which doesn't require the manager to first parse long text messages. So a status such as "Potential Release Blocker" or "RM Review" sounds like a good way forward. Of course a friendly ping

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

2018-05-02 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
-1 in the current form, since an expression such as [y := f(x), x/y] ... is confusing (I'd read this as [y := (f(x), x/y)] Using explicit parens around it would resolve this issue: [(y := f(x)), x/y] ... but even with that, I'm not excited about the additional line noise this adds - th

Re: [python-committers] Proposing Petr Viktorin as a specialist core developer

2018-04-14 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
+1 On 14.04.2018 03:40, Eric Snow wrote: > +1 > > -eric > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 4:56 PM, Raymond Hettinger > wrote: >> >> >>> On Apr 13, 2018, at 5:13 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >>> >>> I'd like to propose Petr Viktorin as a specialist core developer, >>> focusing on extension module imports.

Re: [python-committers] Save the date: Core developer sprints

2018-03-18 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
u can join for the > first few days. You won’t force someone else to miss out completely, > we'll have room. > >   > > Top-posted from my Windows phone > >   > > *From: *M.-A. Lemburg <mailto:m...@egenix.com> > *Sent: *Sunday, March 18, 2018 5:50 &g

Re: [python-committers] Save the date: Core developer sprints

2018-03-18 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 18.03.2018 03:16, Larry Hastings wrote: > > > On 03/07/2018 09:25 PM, Steve Dower wrote: >> So far, I have locked in dates and a building. Assuming no disasters, >> we will have Microsoft Building 20 >>

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

2018-01-25 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
+1 On 25.01.2018 01:00, Victor Stinner wrote: > +1 > > Impressive list of contributions! > > Victor > > 2018-01-25 0:23 GMT+01:00 Yury Selivanov : >> Hi, >> >> I want to propose granting commit privileges to Nathaniel J. Smith. >> He's interested in the idea of becoming a core developer, and gi

Re: [python-committers] Security: please enable 2-factor authentication on GitHub and your email

2017-12-12 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
I'm with David on this one. 2FA is good for admin accounts, but doesn't add much protection for regular committers. Think of what you're trying to protect against: git checkins are all audited and can easily be undone. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from t

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

2017-05-23 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 23.05.2017 20:15, Brett Cannon wrote: > While at the PyCon US sprints the idea came up of offering Carol Willing > developer privileges. Everyone at the table -- about 6 of us -- liked the > idea and Carol also said she would happy to become a core dev, so I'm > officially putting her forward fo

Re: [python-committers] Proposal for procedures regarding CoC actions

2017-05-03 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Since this is a matter outside the realm of committers, the PSF board will have to ultimately decide on any actions taken. The committers can report issues to the board and provide information useful for their decisions, the bad actor also has to be given a chance to respond to allegations and be

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

2017-05-03 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
ut the ones which have a few more comments do mostly deal with code reviews. On 03.05.2017 10:06, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 3 May 2017 at 05:09, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> This doesn't have much to do with UX/UI. It's mainly a questions >> of culture. > > It'

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

2017-05-02 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 02.05.2017 20:44, Donald Stufft wrote: > > I suspect part of it may simply be that mucking around with b.p.o is far less > streamlined then GitHub issues or PRs. One thing we might want to look at is > making it possible to login with GitHub to b.p.o, as that is one possible > hurdle for som

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

2017-05-02 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 02.05.2017 04:25, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 2 May 2017 at 08:32, Christian Heimes wrote: >> This brings me to my questions >> >> 1) Should we try to move discussion back to BPO or are we fine with >> having major decisions just in Github PRs? >> >> 2) How can we retain enough information on BPO

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

2017-05-02 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 02.05.2017 00:32, Christian Heimes wrote: > This brings me to my questions > > 1) Should we try to move discussion back to BPO or are we fine with > having major decisions just in Github PRs? We've had that discussion before: discussions always should happen on BPO, not Github PRs. PRs are jus

Re: [python-committers] Proposal for procedures regarding CoC actions

2017-04-02 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Thanks, Raymond, this reads like a good proposal, but I'd like to suggest that the three people in question are only intended to discuss whether a CoC event has taken place or not and what the person has to say about this. They should then write up a summary to present to the PSF Board which then

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

2017-04-01 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 01.04.2017 05:44, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > >> On Mar 31, 2017, at 2:40 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: >> >> In the (long) discussion of >> https://github.com/python/core-workflow/issues/6, Wes Turner began to do his >> usual posting of lists. People pointed out he was stepping out of line by >>

Re: [python-committers] 4 weeks with the new workflow: what needs changing?

2017-03-16 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 16.03.2017 00:49, Brett Cannon wrote: > On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 at 08:44 Berker Peksağ wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:11 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 at 06:33 M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >>>> >>>> O

Re: [python-committers] 4 weeks with the new workflow: what needs changing?

2017-03-12 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 10.03.2017 23:13, Brett Cannon wrote: > Fifth, anything I missed? :) My main nit after the move is that messages to the checkin list no longer include the full patch. This makes reviews harder than necessary (you always have to go through the browser). Is there some way this could be changed b

[python-committers] PR merges don't seem to show up on b.p.o

2017-03-08 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Is there a reason for this ? Example: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/422 and http://bugs.python.org/issue20087 Also: I'd like to remind other committers that discussions of PRs should happen on the ticket, not the PR. In the above case, the PR was merged while we were still discussing the

Re: [python-committers] Discussions on PRs

2017-02-14 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 13.02.2017 23:49, Victor Stinner wrote: > 2017-02-13 19:30 GMT+01:00 Serhiy Storchaka : >> I'm going to >> unsubscribe from getting emails for all pull requests and subscribe to only >> selected ones. > > I did exactly that, very early :-) > > https://github.com/python/cpython/ : "Watch: *not

[python-committers] Discussions on PRs

2017-02-13 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
With the move to Github, I'm seeing a move away from discussions on the issue tracker towards discussions on pull requests. Example: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/4 Is this something we should encourage or better ask the OPs to open a ticket on the tracker first and reference the PR ther

Re: [python-committers] The new github PR messages

2017-02-12 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Related to this: is there a way to unsubcribe from the codecov notifications ? Those seem to originate directly from github (rather than being sent via the checkins list) and so far I've only found the option to unfollow the entire repo, which is not what I want. I've installed a filter now, so i

Re: [python-committers] Pace of change for Python 3.x

2017-01-26 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 26.01.2017 17:34, A.M. Kuchling wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 01:58:42PM +0100, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> Software maintenance is a commercial support activity that is normally >> done for profit, so the PSF needs to be careful in how it approaches >> it to avoid getting in trouble with the IRS

Re: [python-committers] Proposed new core developer -- Mariatta Wijaya

2017-01-26 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 26.01.2017 16:52, Victor Stinner wrote: > 2017-01-26 14:49 GMT+01:00 Nick Coghlan : >> With Raymond volunteering as mentor, I think an approach where changes >> are still reviewed, but it's Mariatta that does the final commit would >> work. >> >> That would be pretty similar to the way things wo

Re: [python-committers] Pace of change for Python 3.x

2017-01-25 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 25.01.2017 13:30, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Le 25/01/2017 à 10:19, M.-A. Lemburg a écrit : >> All that said, I believe a having a Python 2.7 style long >> support version for Python 3 would be nice and have a stabilizing >> effect which our user base would appreciate

Re: [python-committers] Pace of change for Python 3.x [was: My cavalier and aggressive manner, API] change and bugs introduced for basically zero benefit

2017-01-25 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 24.01.2017 22:08, Victor Stinner wrote: > 2017-01-24 21:46 GMT+01:00 Neil Schemenauer : >> Maybe we could emulate the Linux kernel releases. I.e. have >> relatively fast moving development but also choose releases to give >> long maintenance cycles. Ideally the long term releases would be >> s

Re: [python-committers] Greeting from INADA Naoki

2016-09-28 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 27.09.2016 19:35, INADA Naoki wrote: > Hi, all. > > Thank you, Yury and all for approve me. > > I'll focus on polishing dict implementation, and getting familiar with > workflow until 3.6. Welcome, Inada-san ! > Self-introduction: > > * Github account name is methane > > * Maintainer of Ja

Re: [python-committers] The peps repo is now on GitHub!

2016-06-15 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 16.06.2016 00:48, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > On 16.06.2016 00:42, Brett Cannon wrote: >> I don't think anything has fallen over, so I'm calling this a successful >> migration! The peps repo is now https://github.com/python/peps . > > Thanks for putting so much hard

Re: [python-committers] The peps repo is now on GitHub!

2016-06-15 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 16.06.2016 00:42, Brett Cannon wrote: > I don't think anything has fallen over, so I'm calling this a successful > migration! The peps repo is now https://github.com/python/peps . Thanks for putting so much hard work into this ! > I have given the Python core team on GitHub write access to the

Re: [python-committers] Making the PSF CoC apply to core developers

2016-03-06 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 05.03.2016 00:40, Brett Cannon wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 at 14:04 M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> Brett, >> >> I don't think that spamming all MLs, Github accounts, etc. >> with CoC notices will help anyone. >> > > Which is not what I'm sugg

Re: [python-committers] Making the PSF CoC apply to core developers

2016-03-06 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 06.03.2016 17:52, Ezio Melotti wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: >> >> >> Python-ideas has been under the same CoC for a while now and it has been >> nothing but positive. When people know they are expected to behave in a >> civil manner and others know they are allo

Re: [python-committers] Making the PSF CoC apply to core developers

2016-03-04 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Brett, I don't think that spamming all MLs, Github accounts, etc. with CoC notices will help anyone. You may not be aware, but all PSF infrastructure is covered by the PSF CoC already, and has been for quite a while: """ RESOLVED, that the Python Software Foundation shall manage and curate

Re: [python-committers] Making the PSF CoC apply to core developers

2016-02-29 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 29.02.2016 18:38, Brett Cannon wrote: > ... If we > happen to be at a meetup or conference that has not implemented a CoC that > shouldn't give us an excuse as esteemed representatives of this language > and community to be lax in our behaviour since how we act as core devs is > probably amplifi

Re: [python-committers] Making the PSF CoC apply to core developers

2016-02-27 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 27.02.2016 13:07, Stefan Krah wrote: > Brett Cannon python.org> writes: > >> I noticed that the devguide didn't explicitly mention that core developers > were expected to follow the PSF CoC > (https://docs.python.org/devguide/coredev.html and > https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/, respec

Re: [python-committers] Anyone up for a core dev panel discussion at EuroPython 2016 ?

2016-02-21 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 21.02.2016 17:00, Christian Heimes wrote: > On 2016-02-19 17:35, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> Hello all, > >> at this year's EuroPython we'll have a new officially supported >> feature, the panel discussion, and we (I'm one of the organizers) >> though

Re: [python-committers] Anyone up for a core dev panel discussion at EuroPython 2016 ?

2016-02-20 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 20.02.2016 03:20, Jesus Cea wrote: > On 19/02/16 17:35, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> at this year's EuroPython we'll have a new officially supported >> feature, the panel discussion, and we (I'm one of the organizers) >> thought it would be big fun to have a pa

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