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

2017-12-11 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:26 PM R. David Murray wrote: > On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:56:21 -0500, Donald Stufft > wrote: > > > > > On Dec 11, 2017, at 2:52 PM, R. David Murray > wrote: > > > > > > If 2fa is required for contribution to CPython, I'll stop > > > contributing. > > > > I’m curious why?

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

2018-05-03 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 2:49 AM, Victor Stinner wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to start a poll on Chris Angelico's PEP 572 "Assignment > Expressions", restricted to Python core developers, to prepare the > talk at the Language Summit: > >https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/ > > The poll is

[python-committers] Bring back Travis & AppVeyor, make VSTS non-blocking

2018-05-17 Thread Gregory P. Smith
VSTS is clearly not yet a stable continuous integration platform. It needs to be made non-blocking, and AppVeyor and Travis need to be brought back! Examples: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/6938#issuecomment-389908094 Windows broke - https://python.visualstudio.com/cpython/_build?buil

Re: [python-committers] Travis & AppVeyor hidden on Github, scroll the invisible region to see them.

2018-05-18 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 9:45 AM Terry Reedy wrote: > On 5/18/2018 12:25 AM, Gregory P. Smith wrote: > > VSTS is clearly not yet a stable continuous integration platform. It > > needs to be made non-blocking, and AppVeyor and Travis need to be > > brought back! > &

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

2018-05-18 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 3:28 PM Guido van Rossum wrote: > Discussing PEPs on python-dev and python-ideas is clearly not scalable any > more. (Even python-committers probably doesn't scale too well. :-) > > I wonder if it would make sense to require that for each PEP a new GitHub > *repo* be creat

Re: [python-committers] Vote to promote Pablo Salingo Salgado as core developer

2018-06-14 Thread Gregory P. Smith
Quick response: +0.5 My first reaction was "really?" given the amount of iteration required due to lack of CPython extension module API experience demonstrated in the os.posix_spawn PRs. (I am not surprised to see Serhiy's negative reaction) But Pablo shows drive and desire to do good things an

Re: [python-committers] Transfer of power

2018-07-13 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:17 PM Brett Cannon wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 at 11:53 Barry Warsaw wrote: > >> >> That said, I think a triumvirate would work (Guido’s Unworthy Inherited >> Delegation Organization). > > > Nice! "GUIDO decided ..." Totally going to mess with Guido's personal SEO, >

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

2018-10-10 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 8:24 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] [Python-Dev] 3.7.2rc1 and 3.6.8rc1 cutoffs ahead, last 3.6.x bugfix release!

2018-12-19 Thread Gregory P. Smith
Ned - and any release manager in this situation in the future - has a default valid answer to this request: No. If we're ever going to do an "EL" or "LTS" Python, that should be decided and agreed upon *long before the end of its existing planned maintenance cycle* instead of right as it is ending

Re: [python-committers] Can we choose between mailing list and discuss.python.org?

2019-02-13 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 1:59 PM Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Le 11/02/2019 à 20:00, Barry Warsaw a écrit : > > On Feb 11, 2019, at 09:48, Victor Stinner wrote: > >> > >> tl; dr How can we decide if we should stop using mailing list or if we > >> should stop using discuss.python.org? > > > > Point o

Re: [python-committers] Can we choose between mailing list and discuss.python.org?

2019-02-13 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 12:50 PM Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Le 13/02/2019 à 21:31, Gregory P. Smith a écrit : > > > > I know I can browse easily through a 161-message mailing-list or > > newsgroup thread using a traditional threaded view, read what I want, > &g

Re: [python-committers] Merge with spurious CI failures?

2019-05-08 Thread Gregory P. Smith
Our pythontestdotnet repo is different than the cpython repo and the certificate gets pushed to the server after being committed by hand so it's a synchronization problem,. https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/13192 should clear it up. It's awaiting the slow CI queuing gods. It is marked autom

Re: [python-committers] Merge with spurious CI failures?

2019-05-08 Thread Gregory P. Smith
If this cert change is impacting CI checks for everyone's PRs, I suspect all PRs will need to merge this change into their branch before they can pass CI. Having CI depend on external network resources does not seem like a good idea. -gps On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 11:04 AM Antoine Pitrou wrote: >

[python-committers] miss-islington backport pipeline is stalled?

2019-05-08 Thread Gregory P. Smith
Yesterday it failed to produce a backport or tell me that it couldn't (after the "i'm now working on ..." message was left on the master PR). I waited a couple hours just in case and ran cherry_picker myself instead. Same thing today apparently on https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/13192 assum

Re: [python-committers] Merge with spurious CI failures?

2019-05-08 Thread Gregory P. Smith
fwiw a future way to avoid this mess is in https://bugs.python.org/issue36855: have the tests support multiple certificates so we can stage the new ones into our repo before updating the server. -gps On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 11:15 AM Gregory P. Smith wrote: > If this cert change is impacting

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

2019-05-13 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 4:11 PM Barry Warsaw wrote: > On May 13, 2019, at 01:14, Victor Stinner wrote: > > > I'm no longer sure myself that I can define them. I prefer to repeat > > what others say :-) Basically, a core developers is someone who > > produces commits :-) That's one definition. >

[python-committers] Re: Policy around compile-time flags in bugfix releases

2020-03-01 Thread Gregory P. Smith
FWIW that is a configure flag, not a flag to the compiler, so I see no problem with this. The default build has not changed, it just exposes another way to build the interpreter. We've done this in the past with things like --enable-optimizations and such flags. In this case it appears to enable

[python-committers] Re: Welcome Dong-hee Na to the team!

2020-04-09 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 8:32 PM Dong-hee Na wrote: > > I still don't know all the parts of Python interpreter/compiler. Never fear. None of us do either! =) welcome! -gps ___ python-committers mailing list -- python-committers@python.org To unsubscr

[python-committers] Re: Language Summit

2020-04-15 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 6:53 AM Brett Cannon wrote: > joannah nanjekye wrote: > > Hey all, > > Unfortunately this year am too busy and cant even attend the language > > summit mostly. > > :( Sorry to hear that. > > > However if I knew the schedule, I could sign up for a session or two > online. >

[python-committers] workflow enhancement: a `mark bug as fixed` PR tag [feature request]

2020-10-11 Thread Gregory P. Smith
We've got the automerge tag on GH, it+bot make it awesome. There's one more thing I'd like to see that could help with bug hygiene: A tag to close the associated bug as "fixed" after the merge happens. This doesn't have to be tied to automerge; in practice you'd find them used in unison somewhat o

[python-committers] Re: workflow enhancement: a `mark bug as fixed` PR tag [feature request]

2020-10-11 Thread Gregory P. Smith
signs and implements our GH Issues workflow (PEP-581 and 588 or otherwise). -gps > > Victor > > Le dim. 11 oct. 2020 à 21:16, Guido van Rossum a écrit > : > > > > Once issues move to GitHub we’ll have this with no additional effort. > > > > On Sun, Oct 11, 202

[python-committers] Re: workflow enhancement: a `mark bug as fixed` PR tag [feature request]

2020-10-11 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 4:23 PM Berker Peksağ wrote: > On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 10:14 PM Gregory P. Smith wrote: > > > > We've got the automerge tag on GH, it+bot make it awesome. There's one > more thing I'd like to see that could help with bug hygiene: A tag

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

2020-10-16 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 1:42 AM Victor Stinner wrote: > Hi, > > Python has no mandatory Linux CI job on pull requests anymore. Right > now Windows (x64) remains the only mandatory job. Please be careful to > manually check other CI before merging a PR. > > -- > > We had to deal with at least 3 di

[python-committers] Re: Is Tests / Ubuntu broken at the moment?

2021-03-02 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 6:44 PM Senthil Kumaran wrote: > Hello Python Developers, > > I notice TLS tests failing in the ssl test suite in master, 3.9 and > 3.8 branches. > > https://github.com/python/cpython/runs/2018191733 > > Is it to do with infrastructure, certificate? I am unable to determine

[python-committers] Re: Is Tests / Ubuntu broken at the moment?

2021-03-02 Thread Gregory P. Smith
For lack of better things to do with that... https://bugs.python.org/issue43382 filed to track it. On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 7:30 PM Gregory P. Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 6:44 PM Senthil Kumaran wrote: > >> Hello Python Developers, >> >> I notice TLS te

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

2021-03-16 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 9:42 AM Christian Heimes wrote: > On 16/03/2021 16.54, Julien Palard wrote: > > Le 2021-03-16 à 15:52, Christian Heimes a écrit : > >> could you please explain your use case? Which problem are you trying to > >> solve? How would a sha256 checksum help you solve that proble

[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-13 Thread Gregory P. Smith
We already have https://python.zulipchat.com/ setup. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-April/152826.html I don't hang around there all the time, but I usually re-open a window there around pycons and core dev sprints. -gps On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 4:53 PM Guido van Rossum wrote:

[python-committers] Re: core-dev chat

2021-05-17 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 6:44 PM Kyle Stanley wrote: > > FWIW, I would love to add a core dev Discord server to my long-ish list of >> Discord servers. It's a chat platform I find convenient (much more so than >> Zulip and Slack, and slightly more so than IRC), very organised, with good >> moderat

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

2022-02-17 Thread Gregory P. Smith
> - 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. Manually, I would not bother to try and remove inactive subscribers until an actual problem arises. If we do want

[python-committers] Re: Proposed tiered platform support

2022-03-11 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 10:45 AM Brett Cannon wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 9:16 AM Paul Moore wrote: > >> On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 at 17:09, Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote: >> > >> > On 11.03.2022 17:42, Zachary Ware wrote: >> > > >> > > - Only code which either supports a higher-tier platform or is

[python-committers] Re: Proposed tiered platform support

2022-03-14 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 11:43 AM Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote: > On 14.03.2022 19:34, Brett Cannon wrote: > > Greg proposed something like "Code changes to support platforms beyond > tier1 or > > tier2 may be rejected, broken, or removed from the CPython codebase > without > > notice if they cause a

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

2022-03-22 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 5:02 PM Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 04:26:57PM -0700, Brett Cannon wrote: > > >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 > > D

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

2022-03-22 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 4:36 PM Barry Warsaw wrote: > PEP 2 will have to be “un-superseded”, and presumably the devguide (which > PEP 2 points to) will also need to be updated. > we discussed that a bit. the dev guide makes sense as a "how to do it" purpose document, useful for constructing PRs

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

2022-04-01 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 12:22 PM Brett Cannon wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 4:40 PM Victor Stinner > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I don't think that the current PEP 11 draft (*) describes correctly >> the current status of a bunch of platforms which are not "actively" >> supported. I like to call t

[python-committers] [action requested] Python Core Dev Sprint 2022 survey / RSVP

2022-08-11 Thread Gregory P. Smith
In-case yesterday's mail got flagged as spam due to being sent from Google Forms directly to the mailing list (which made it show up marked "suspicious" even on my end): I sent out an attendance survey for the CPython Core Dev Sprint this October 3-7, 2022: https://forms.gle/j5baU9GTQtXpQE578 Pl

[python-committers] Re: [action requested] Python Core Dev Sprint 2022 survey / RSVP

2022-09-29 Thread Gregory P. Smith
free time also means that, if it isn't too much to ask, I have the time to > "crash" the Python Core Dev Sprint this year. I know I'm very late to the > party, I can bring my own food and stay away from anything that can't > handle an extra person. Let me know ple

[python-committers] Re: IMPORTANT: Check the 3.11.0 cherry-picks

2022-10-24 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 3:59 AM Pablo Galindo Salgado wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I emerged from cherry-picking hell! As mentioned previously, the 3.11.0 > final release will be done from the "branch-v3.11.0" branch > and will contain a bunch of cherry-picked commits on top of v3.11.0rc2. > These c

Re: [python-committers] build dependency on the branches on sphinx trunk necessary?

2009-01-26 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > Guido van Rossum schrieb: > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > >> Guido van Rossum schrieb: > >>> I'm not sure I understand your request. Is it okay to build docs using > >>> a version of sphinx that is included in

Re: [python-committers] help with svnmerge

2009-03-10 Thread Gregory P. Smith
I think those instructions are for merging lots of things at once. What I've used when I'm merging a single revision is this: g...@pts/6.dealer/9:46AM% svn up ~/sandbox/python/release26-maint At revision 70301. g...@pts/6.dealer/9:47AM% python ../svnmerge.py merge -r70197 property 'svnmerge-integ

[python-committers] www & svn . python.org down?

2009-08-07 Thread Gregory P. Smith
i assume someone already knows, just pointing it out. ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers

Re: [python-committers] Misc/NEWS entries added to released versions

2009-09-13 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 06.04.2009 00:33, Matthias Klose wrote: >> >> While looking at the diffs between the 261 release tags and the 26 branch, >> I >> noticed many items in Misc/NEWS appearing in the 2.6.1 or even 2.6 >> sections. >> I moved all of these to 2.

Re: [python-committers] Commit access for David Malcolm

2010-02-20 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote: > Hi all, > > David Malcolm is the Fedora maintainer for the Python package and has > written a gdb plugin to replace and dramatically improve our old > Misc/gdbinit file using the new python scripting support in gdb-7. You > can see it in a

Re: [python-committers] branches and merging

2010-03-01 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:16 AM, Eric Smith wrote: > Steven Bethard wrote: >> >> I'm preparing the argparse module for the 2.7 and 3.2 branches. Could >> someone remind me again what the commit process is? Commit to 2.7 and >> merge to 3.2? And do we merge with svnmerge.py or svn merge? There's >>

Re: [python-committers] pybsddb 5.0.0 integration and 2.7beta1 schedule

2010-04-06 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Jesus Cea wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Oracle just released Berkeley DB 5.0.21, with features like SQLite façade. > > I am now testing pybsddb 5.0.0, that supports BDB 5.0.x. > > My original plan was to delay integration of pybsddb 5

Re: [python-committers] Proposing Tim Golden as a Committer

2010-04-19 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Mark Hammond wrote: > On 20/04/2010 4:51 AM, Michael Foord wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I would like to propose Tim Golden as a Python committer. He has been >> involved in Python for many years, is a capable Windows guy, and has >> submitted many patches / docume

Re: [python-committers] Untabifying the C codebase

2010-05-09 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le dimanche 09 mai 2010 à 22:04 +0200, Victor Stinner a écrit : >> Le dimanche 09 mai 2010 18:56:27, Antoine Pitrou a écrit : >> > This was done in r81029 (trunk), r81031 (2.6), r81032 (3.x) and r81033 >> > (3.1). I'm mentioning the revision

Re: [python-committers] New committer proposal: Alexander Belopolsky

2010-05-21 Thread Gregory P. Smith
+1 On May 20, 2010 1:28 PM, "Mark Dickinson" wrote: I propose that Alexander Belopolsky be given svn commit access. I've already checked with him that he's interested (he is), and I'm prepared to mentor him while he's learning the ropes. A brief history: Alexander's been contributing patches f

Re: [python-committers] Charles-François Natali (neologix)

2011-05-15 Thread Gregory P. Smith
+1 ___ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers

Re: [python-committers] Merge cleanup reminder

2011-05-29 Thread Gregory P. Smith
Lib/test/test_subprocess.py > description: > Null merge to record previous incorrecly merged changeset from 3.2 > Thanks. It looks like I did my merge incorrectly, I'll revisit my hg procedures. *flogs self* -gps > branch: > changeset: 70465:4f248dd34dd9 > branch: 3

Re: [python-committers] Python Language Summit at PyCon US

2012-02-06 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Michael Foord wrote: > > On 6 Feb 2012, at 21:55, Brett Cannon wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 08:04, Michael Foord >> wrote: >> Hello Python Committers, >> >> As usual we will hold a Python Language Summit before the PyCon US >> conference. >> >> The l

[python-committers] Time to cut new rc2 release candidates - expat DoS fix is in

2012-03-14 Thread Gregory P. Smith
The fixes for the expat hash randomization DoS are in and working - http://bugs.python.org/issue14234. New stable and security fix rc2 release candidates should be created for 2.6, 2.7, 3.1 and 3.2. Barry and MvL agreed that this weekend should work for them to creating release builds. -gps

Re: [python-committers] Time to cut new rc2 release candidates - expat DoS fix is in

2012-03-14 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Benjamin Peterson wrote: > 2012/3/14 Gregory P. Smith : > > The fixes for the expat hash randomization DoS are in and working - > > http://bugs.python.org/issue14234. New stable and security fix rc2 > release > > candidates should be creat

[python-committers] fyi - openssl vulnerability - likely in our windows builds

2012-04-23 Thread Gregory P. Smith
FYI - there is a network exploitable vulnerability in OpenSSL - http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-2110 Our windows builds likely need updating. At the very least make sure openssl is updated before the next time we produce binaries. Its up to the release managers if they wa

Re: [python-committers] fyi - openssl vulnerability - likely in our windows builds

2012-04-23 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:42 PM, wrote: > I don't see any occurrence of these functions in the various versions of >> the _ssl module. >> Is Python really affected by this vulnerability? >> > > We use SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_**file, which ultimately uses > d2i_X509_AUX_fp (I think). > > Ho

Re: [python-committers] Commit privileges for Eric Snow

2012-08-23 Thread Gregory P. Smith
+1 He doesn't already have them? Blink. -- got tyops? this was quickly tapped out on a touch screen. On Aug 23, 2012 4:59 PM, "Nick Coghlan" wrote: > I'd like to propose granting Eric Snow commit privileges. > > He's been contributing for a couple of years, mostly working on the > import system

Re: [python-committers] Googler Python committers

2012-10-16 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Chris Jerdonek wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Eli Bendersky wrote: > > > > I had the privilege of joining Google's Mountain View office yesterday, > and > > was wondering who else from the core development team works there, or in > > Google in general (

Re: [python-committers] Googler Python committers

2012-10-16 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Anthony Baxter wrote: > Yep. People tend to stop being so active when they join Google (including > me) :-( > My activity increased. I would not make that statement. -gps ___ python-committers mailing list python-commit

Re: [python-committers] what's going on with Misc/NEWS?

2013-05-24 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On May 24, 2013 2:26 PM, "Benjamin Peterson" wrote: > > 2013/5/24 Brett Cannon : > > It's an extreme example, but for instance I added an entry for this > > sys.modules change where I just added a clarifying sentence. Probably > > not needed but wanted to make sure that people got the message they

Re: [python-committers] what's going on with Misc/NEWS?

2013-05-24 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On May 24, 2013 2:55 PM, "Antoine Pitrou" wrote: > > Le vendredi 24 mai 2013 à 16:22 -0400, Brett Cannon a écrit : > > > > > > I don't understand why it's painful to backport. Can you explain? > > > > If I make a very minor fix to the docs I have to: > > > > # In a 3.3 checkout > > Fix docs > > Co

Re: [python-committers] what's going on with Misc/NEWS?

2013-05-25 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On May 25, 2013 1:40 AM, "Nick Coghlan" wrote: > > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Eric Snow wrote: > > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Raymond Hettinger > > wrote: > >> and it recognizes that users don't really need to look across merge > >> boundaries. > > > > This is tricky though for any p

Re: [python-committers] what's going on with Misc/NEWS?

2013-05-25 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On May 25, 2013 8:29 AM, "Gregory P. Smith" wrote: > > > On May 25, 2013 1:40 AM, "Nick Coghlan" wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Eric Snow wrote: > > > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Raymond Hettinger > > > wrote: &g

Re: [python-committers] what's going on with Misc/NEWS?

2013-05-26 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On May 26, 2013 1:15 PM, "Brett Cannon" wrote: > > > On May 25, 2013 9:18 PM, "Nick Coghlan" wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: > > >> The NEWS update script could even use the revision history to decide > > >> which order to add entries to the bulleted list. > >

Re: [python-committers] Temporary revert to vanilla hg

2013-09-06 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le samedi 07 septembre 2013 à 02:03 +0200, Antoine Pitrou a écrit : > > Hello, > > > > I've temporarily reverted hg.python.org to a vanilla Mercurial > > installation (non-modified) in order to try and eliminate a recent > > performance prob

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-07 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Eli Bendersky wrote: > Hello, > > Does it really make sense to introduce large amounts of code churn after > the release of 3.4 beta2? It started innocently enough, but now it seems > that the whole implementation is being reconsidered (Antoine's email to > pydev).

Re: [python-committers] clinic churn after beta2

2014-01-07 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Larry Hastings wrote: > On 01/07/2014 03:10 PM, A.M. Kuchling wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 02:37:22PM -0800, Eli Bendersky wrote: > > Just to be clear, this is exactly what I mean. I'm not saying AC is not > worth it; I'm questioning the timing. > > Agreed

Re: [python-committers] review links

2014-02-03 Thread Gregory P. Smith
actually if your patch contains "diff -r f4377699fd47 Lib/test/test_zipimport.py" lines prior to the --- line as hg diff can emit, it'll do the right thing and show the review against the version of the file listed (or at least against it's branch head? that's an example taken from 3.3 for a patc

Re: [python-committers] Commit access to PEPs for Ben Hoyt

2014-07-08 Thread Gregory P. Smith
+1 On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Eli Bendersky wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Victor Stinner > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Ben Hoyt (benh...@gmail.com) is working on the os.scandir() PEP 471: >> http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0471/ >> >> Currently, he send me the PEP text an

Re: [python-committers] Proposed core developer for contributing to multiprocessing

2015-01-10 Thread Gregory P. Smith
+1 for commit access, Raymond volunteered as a mentor. I agree with MAL, it is more beneficial to trust people and give out commit access early. -gregory.p.smith On Sat Jan 10 2015 at 9:16:26 AM Ethan Furman wrote: > On 01/06/2015 11:09 PM, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > > > I would like to prop

Re: [python-committers] We will be moving to GitHub (hopefully) in 2016

2016-01-04 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 12:34 PM R. David Murray wrote: > to have to do some extra work to make the hash links work in the bug > tracker, since I don't think there's any a priori way to distinguish > between hg hashes and git hashes. > Just ignore the remote possibility of short 32-bit hash prefi

Re: [python-committers] Davin Potts as a new committer

2016-03-04 Thread Gregory P. Smith
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 10:07 PM Raymond Hettinger < raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mar 4, 2016, at 4:07 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > > > > I guess I'm just worried about the health of this project. I'm doing > what I can through the migration to GitHub to make it easier for others to >

Re: [python-committers] Promote Xiang Zhang as a core developer

2016-11-21 Thread Gregory P. Smith
+1 thanks for mentoring. On Mon, Nov 21, 2016, 2:14 PM Victor Stinner wrote: > Hi, > > 2016-11-21 21:53 GMT+01:00 Brett Cannon : > > We received an email from Xiang with his SSH keys and GitHub username > > (although no subscription request for python-committers). Was he finally > > approved for

Re: [python-committers] autoconf 2.70

2016-11-23 Thread Gregory P. Smith
I do not think we should require individual developers committing changes to configure.ac to use a particular version of autoconf when regenerating configure. That is a burden. The solution to your problem is to maintain your patches _only_ against configure.ac and rerun autoconf using whatever ve