[Python-Dev] Release of a responsive python-docs-theme 2021.5

2021-05-07 Thread Carol Willing
It’s with great pleasure that I announce that python-docs-theme has been released to PyPI. Thanks to the hard work and patience of Olga Bulat, @obulat, Python’s doc theme is now responsive. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release by filing issues, writing PRs, reviewing PRs,

[Python-Dev] Re: Anyone else gotten bizarre personal replies to mailing list posts?

2021-05-04 Thread Carol Willing
Thanks Tim. On Tue, May 4, 2021, 11:13 AM Tim Peters wrote: > FYI, I just force-unsubscribed this member (Hoi Lam Poon) from > python-dev. Normally I don't do things like that, since, e.g, we have > no way to know whether the sender address was spoofed in emails we > get. But in this case Hoi'

[Python-Dev] Re: Announcing the CPython Docs Workgroup

2021-05-03 Thread Carol Willing
Raymond, Anyone can contribute to the documentation and comment, and core devs can accept patches. Nothing changes here. The Steering Council did approve the initial members and charter. The intent has always been to be transparent and open. As discussed at last year's Language Summit, the goal

[Python-Dev] Re: Announcing the CPython Docs Workgroup

2021-05-01 Thread Carol Willing
Hi Raymond, In about a month after the Language Summit, we'll have an open call for applications for the Docs Workgroup similar to how the PSF gets and reviews applications for the Code of Conduct workgroup. Please keep an eye out for an announcement on Discourse, Python-Dev, and the docs-communi

[Python-Dev] Re: Keeping Python a Duck Typed Language.

2021-04-21 Thread Carol Willing
Luciano, Thank you for such a thoughtful and eloquent response. Your wisdom is definitely appreciated, and I agree this is an opportunity to go forward with more clarity. I'm so proud of the Python dev community for their thoughtful and respectful conversation. All, Without the efforts of Larry,

[Python-Dev] Re: [Steering-council] Re: Steering Council reply regarding conduct (was Re: Steering Council update for February)

2021-03-24 Thread Carol Willing
Martin, The decision regarding the action and email was unanimous (5-0). It was discussed in our March 15 and March 22 Steering Council meeting. This post and this other post ( https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/J5GR6YVIVWQ2VPLISAGBQH3UQN4YWAXS/) provides context

[Python-Dev] Re: Steering Council update for February

2021-03-10 Thread Carol Willing
GitLab has just posted the following re: default branches. https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/03/10/new-git-default-branch-name/ Please take a moment to pause before posting. Please consider whether additional comments are constructive. I'm concerned that rehashing the same arguments will reflect

[Python-Dev] Re: Steering Council update for February

2021-03-10 Thread Carol Willing
I echo Barry's earlier response. To directly address individuals who object to renaming the branch: I respect your opinion. As I weigh the benefits of keeping the status quo with the benefits of changing, I see the change as a temporary inconvenience to update the branch once in order to open the

[Python-Dev] Re: Bumping minimum Sphinx version to 3.2 for cpython 3.10?

2021-01-13 Thread Carol Willing
Hi Julien, I think that there are two items to consider: - `needs_sphinx` in `conf.py` - setting for Sphinx in `cpython/Doc/requirements.txt` I believe that the `needs_sphinx` field identifies the minimal version of Sphinx that can be used to build the docs. The actual version that is used to bui

[Python-Dev] Re: SC 2020 recommendation for PEP 634

2020-12-08 Thread Carol Willing
On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 7:32 AM Paul Moore wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 15:19, David Mertz wrote: > > > > As a candidate for the new SC, if elected I would certainly find it more > useful to have more specific thoughts from the outgoing SC than simply "we > recommend." How divided was the vote?

[Python-Dev] Re: Please do not remove random bits of information from the tutorial

2020-11-10 Thread Carol Willing
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 8:07 AM Mats Wichmann wrote: > On 11/9/20 12:46 PM, Mike Miller wrote: > > > > On 2020-11-09 10:44, Simon Cross wrote: > >> That's quite subjective. Personally I prefer a more complete tutorial > >> which explains many details so that I don't immediately run into > >> fund

[Python-Dev] Re: Please do not remove random bits of information from the tutorial

2020-11-09 Thread Carol Willing
We'll be making an announcement in a few weeks asking folks to apply for the workgroup. The workgroup will be at most 20 people with the goal of having significant representation (25% to 50%) of individuals who are educators and documentarians. One goal of the workgroup is to set documentation prio

[Python-Dev] Re: Who is target reader of tutorial?

2020-11-05 Thread Carol Willing
Thanks Inada-san for bringing up this issue. I agree with your point and Guido's that the tutorial should target learning Python if new to the language but not coding. It's likely that in the future there will be an even more basic tutorial for those newer to coding. An advanced concept, as Kyle m

[Python-Dev] Re: [python-committers] Resignation from Stefan Krah

2020-10-10 Thread Carol Willing
On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 10:42 AM Jeff Allen wrote: > On 10/10/2020 00:56, Brett Cannon wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 2:55 PM Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > >> >> One thing i would suggest, though, is documenting and, in general, >> following a sequence of progressively more strict interventions by

[Python-Dev] Re: [python-committers] Resignation from Stefan Krah

2020-10-09 Thread Carol Willing
On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 2:50 PM Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2020, 5:30 AM Christian Heimes > wrote: > >> On 09/10/2020 04.04, Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev wrote: >> > I don't see the point of requiring to "write an apology", especially >> > *before a 12-month ban*. If they understa

[Python-Dev] Re: Python Documentation, Python language improvement, and productive discussion

2020-08-09 Thread Carol Willing
Hi folks, Thanks for the interest. I apologize for the delay in getting this workgroup started. I'm happy that there is strong interest in working on documentation and improving it for all users. I will do my best to get the workgroup charter drafted this week and then open an interest list for i

[Python-Dev] Python Documentation, Python language improvement, and productive discussion

2020-07-02 Thread Carol Willing
Hi folks, Earlier this year at the Python Language Summit, Ned Batchelder and I presented the concept of a Documentation Workgroup and a vision for the next few years: - Slidedeck https://speakerdeck.com/willingc/cpython-documentation-the-next-5-years - Blog post https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2

[Python-Dev] Re: Nominations for the 2019 Steering Council Election are open until Friday.

2019-11-13 Thread Carol Willing
o do the nominating. Brett Cannon and Carol Willing have posted about > what the work entails: > > https://snarky.ca/what-its-like-to-be-on-the-python-steering-council/ > https://www.willingconsulting.com/post/2019-11-02-python-steering-retro/ > > If you think you might be intereste

[Python-Dev] Re: Steering Council Update for July 2019

2019-07-08 Thread Carol Willing
Hi Simon, There are several ways to share constructive feedback. You may email the steering council, file an issue on the public steering council repo, or create a discussion thread on Discourse or python-dev. Thanks! Carol On Mon, Jul 8, 2019, at 12:35 PM, Simon Cross wrote: > Is there a way

[Python-Dev] Re: Steering Council Update for July 2019

2019-07-08 Thread Carol Willing
Sorry for the incorrect link. Here is the corrected link: https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/master/updates/2019-07-08_steering-council-update.md On Mon, Jul 8, 2019, at 7:16 AM, Carol Willing wrote: > I've posted an update from the Steering Council to our repo:

[Python-Dev] Steering Council Update for July 2019

2019-07-08 Thread Carol Willing
I've posted an update from the Steering Council to our repo: https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/master/updates/2019-07-08_steering-council I will also link to this on python-dev and on Discourse (discuss.python.org ). For completeness, below is the full text. # Steering Council U

[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 581 has been updated with "Downsides of GitHub" section

2019-06-28 Thread Carol Willing
ython.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/JPWPWUUYDRWNWALTVT4VIT4L6WMBNIRJ/ > -- *Carol Willing* Willing Consulting <https://willingconsulting.com> *Signature strengths* *Empathy - Relator - Ideation - Strategic - Learner* _

[Python-Dev] Re: v3.8b1 Breaks PyQt on Windows (Issue 36085/os.add_dll_directory())

2019-06-22 Thread Carol Willing
Hi Phil, Thanks for trying the beta. Please file this as an issue at bugs.python.org. Doing so would be helpful for folks who can look into the issue. Thanks, Carol On 6/22/19 2:04 PM, Phil Thompson wrote: The implementation of issue 36085 breaks PyQt on Windows as it relies on PATH to fin

[Python-Dev] Re: python-ideas and python-dev migrated to Mailman 3/HyperKitty

2019-06-05 Thread Carol Willing
Barry Warsaw wrote on 6/5/19 10:56 AM: On Jun 5, 2019, at 02:08, Victor Stinner wrote: Our kind postmasters Mark Sapiro and Abhilash Raj migrated python-ideas and python-dev mailing lists from Mailman 2 to Mailman 3 (running on Python 3 ;-))! Gosh, it warms my heart. :) Thank you Mark, Abhi

Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 595: Improving bugs.python.org

2019-05-31 Thread Carol Willing
Nathaniel Smith wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:39 AM Barry Warsaw wrote: On May 31, 2019, at 01:22, Antoine Pitrou wrote: I second this. There are currently ~7000 bugs open on bugs.python.org.  The Web UI makes a good job of actually being able to navigate through these bugs, searc

[Python-Dev] Online Devguide Status: Working Again

2019-05-12 Thread Carol Willing
Sorry for the inconvenience yesterday. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

[Python-Dev] Update from the Python Steering Council about CPython Development

2019-03-01 Thread Carol Willing
The Python Steering Council is pleased to provide an update to the Python community about Steering Council activity and CPython development. We've created a GitHub repo for Steering Council updates and helpful documents: https://github.com/python/steering-council Here's the latest update writte

Re: [Python-Dev] Anyone want to lead the sprints at PyCon US 2016?

2016-05-06 Thread Carol Willing
is a good idea or if this is just late night caffeine talking. I have absolutely no problem if you want to pitch this idea to new contributors who show up at the sprints! -Brett Camilla, I would be happy to support your effort. I find it a wonderful idea! Carol Carol Willing Research Softwar

Re: [Python-Dev] Burning down the backlog.

2015-08-18 Thread Carol Willing
On 8/18/15 7:52 AM, R. David Murray wrote: On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 12:47:22 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Robert Collins writes: However - 9 isn't a bad number for 'patches that the triagers think are ready to commit' inventory. So yay!. Also - triagers, thank you for feeding patches through the

Re: [Python-Dev] Burning down the backlog.

2015-07-27 Thread Carol Willing
On 7/26/15 6:37 PM, R. David Murray wrote: On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 22:59:51 +0100, Paul Moore wrote: On 26 July 2015 at 16:39, Berker PeksaÄŸ wrote: So, I'm hoping Carol will take what I've written above and turn it into updates for the devguide (assuming no one disagrees with what I've said :)

Re: [Python-Dev] Devguide - Add Communications Quick Start Section

2015-07-21 Thread Carol Willing
On 7/21/15 9:31 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote: On 22 July 2015 at 04:08, Brett Cannon wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:05 AM Carol Willing wrote: The Communications Quick Start section would be brief and practical much like the Quick Start section for downloading and testing the source code

[Python-Dev] Devguide - Add Communications Quick Start Section

2015-07-21 Thread Carol Willing
I would like to add a "Communications Quick Start" section to the beginning of the Python Developer's Guide. Productive communication between each other will always be critical to future development of CPython and maintaining releases, infrastructure, documentation, and more. Unproductive co

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3 migration status update across some key subcommunities (was Re: 2.7 is here until 2020, please don't call it a waste.)

2015-05-31 Thread Carol Willing
. Practically, use whichever version is best suited to the use case. Warmly, Carol P.S. Whether you develop for version 2, version 3, or both, thank you for doing so :-) -- *Carol Willing* Developer | Willing Consulting https://willingconsulting.com _

Re: [Python-Dev] Mac popups running make test

2015-05-11 Thread Carol Willing
W9 I'm unaware of a way to work around this other than using Apple's code signing or adjusting target build settings in XCode :( If anyone knows a good way to workaround or manually set permission (other than clicking the Allow button), I would be interested. Warmly,

Re: [Python-Dev] Type hints -- a mediocre programmer's reaction

2015-04-21 Thread Carol Willing
were new and magical. Looking at the Coverity scans, I'm glad that the old magic is reaping real benefits. -- *Carol Willing* Developer | Willing Consulting https://willingconsulting.com ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https:

Re: [Python-Dev] Starting CPython development w/ Docker

2015-04-20 Thread Carol Willing
s set up correctly. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/willingc%40willingconsulting.com -- *Carol Willing* Developer | Willing Consulting https://wil

Re: [Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 3.4.3 is now available

2015-02-27 Thread Carol Willing
iling list Python-Dev@python.org <mailto:Python-Dev@python.org> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido <http://python.org/%7Eguido>)

Re: [Python-Dev] rst files

2015-01-23 Thread Carol Willing
dev/willingc%40willingconsulting.com -- *Carol Willing* Developer | Willing Consulting https://willingconsulting.com ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.or

[Python-Dev] Python 3.4.2rc1 Mac OS X

2014-09-23 Thread Carol Willing
took about 5 minutes to guide each user through installing 3.4.1. The new 3.4.2rc1 installer is a *big* improvement. It also seems as if launching the interpreter from the command line is also faster now :) -- *Carol Willing* Developer | Willing Consulting +1 760 456 9366 | https