[Python-ideas] Re: An HTTP API to list versions of Python

2020-05-29 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Since cutting releases is done by the release manager, producing such meta would have to be part of his or her role. The tools RMs use are here: https://github.com/python/release-tools/ The PEP describing the process: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0101/ Looking through the release.py scrip

[Python-ideas] Re: An HTTP API to list versions of Python

2020-05-28 Thread Wes Turner
Does there need to be a webapp? Or could it just be a JSON-LD file in a static site; maybe with a GH Action that validates (and maybe generates) the data according to a schema. Here's a rough sketch of a schema for this data: "Generate Misc/NEWS from individual files" (2017) https://github.com/py

[Python-ideas] Re: An HTTP API to list versions of Python

2020-05-28 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 27.05.2020 23:46, Joseph Banks wrote: > The downside to the FTP solution however is that little metadata is > present about the versions > > The FTP pages are primarily for downloading versions which isn't the aim > of the proposal, it's to be able to fetch the metadata. > > Adding some sort o

[Python-ideas] Re: An HTTP API to list versions of Python

2020-05-28 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
27.05.20 21:10, Christian Heimes пише: Barry and Guido own the Python project on PyPI, https://pypi.org/project/Python/ . There hasn't been an update since 2.5.0 in 2007. There are also https://pypi.org/project/python2/ https://pypi.org/project/python4/ https://pypi.org/project/cPython/ which

[Python-ideas] Re: An HTTP API to list versions of Python

2020-05-27 Thread Joseph Banks
The downside to the FTP solution however is that little metadata is present about the versions The FTP pages are primarily for downloading versions which isn't the aim of the proposal, it's to be able to fetch the metadata. Adding some sort of metadata file to all versions on the FTP server would

[Python-ideas] Re: An HTTP API to list versions of Python

2020-05-27 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 27.05.2020 18:59, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Tue, 26 May 2020 22:19:12 -0400 > Kyle Stanley wrote: >> >>> It could become more detailed about each minor versions, git tag, links >> to changelogs, links to the repositories, to the docs, download links, >> and so on. >> >> I don't know that it

[Python-ideas] Re: An HTTP API to list versions of Python

2020-05-27 Thread Christian Heimes
On 27/05/2020 18.59, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Tue, 26 May 2020 22:19:12 -0400 > Kyle Stanley wrote: >> >>> It could become more detailed about each minor versions, git tag, links >> to changelogs, links to the repositories, to the docs, download links, >> and so on. >> >> I don't know that it

[Python-ideas] Re: An HTTP API to list versions of Python

2020-05-27 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Tue, 26 May 2020 22:19:12 -0400 Kyle Stanley wrote: > > > It could become more detailed about each minor versions, git tag, links > to changelogs, links to the repositories, to the docs, download links, > and so on. > > I don't know that it needs to be said, but for now, I think we should s

[Python-ideas] Re: An HTTP API to list versions of Python

2020-05-26 Thread Kyle Stanley
Assuming the release managers are on-board with the idea (since it would impact them the most), I'm +1. Overall, it seems like it would help significantly to reduce the total number of different locations to update during the release process once we get it fully configured. > It could become more