However, people do know that I'm not planning to write all these spec updates myself, right? I've claimed 426/440/459, but if you wait for me to write the others as well, we're going to be waiting a long time.
I know Donald already has a very early draft of wheel 2.0 in the works, but I'm not aware of anyone that has even started thinking seriously about an sdist 2.0 spec, or an update to the installation database spec - if the latter could include an SQLite based caching mechanism, that would be great, since it lays the foundation for allowing metaimporters to provide installation database entries. And PEP 425 does need an update to cover at least Linux distros (likely based on /etc/os-release).
Would it help if I created tasks for all the things that still need to be done in the metadata formats repo, and assigned the ones I'm actually working on to myself? That way people could see clearly where we already know work is needed, but nobody has volunteered to do it yet.
that would be good. If you did, I would link to the tasks from the PUG future page.