The new PyPI is still working towards our big public beta[1]. We have 7 open issues till we'll declare beta and make an outreach push (probably late this week or early next week), and then 19 more open issues till we can redirect/launch PyPI[2] probably in April (overview[3]). I've started preparing a draft overview of what's new in PyPI/packaging/distribution[4] to publicize along with the beta; it says "not to be publicized" but I'll let you in on the secret early. Maybe something in it is new to you as well!

As usual, we had a Warehouse core developers' meeting on Monday[5]. The last week has seen a lot of polish and bugfixing and documentation for Warehouse. For instance, project deletion is cleaner[6], we more consistently indicate dangerous actions on a page[7], and there's now a migration guide for third-party services[8] which we told several projects about[9]. We've done some infrastructural work, like Datadog instrumentation[10], "Conveyor" (a shim for URL redirects)[11], and Cabotage improvements[12]. Here's an animated GIF demo of release phase commands (scale up, scale down).[13] And we improved other codebases as well, to fix Travis docs[14], get our HTTPS proxy service to deal with big embedded images[15], and deal better with parsing invalid URLs in READMEs[16]. Thanks to volunteers who got pull requests merged this week: * waseem[17]: we now send an email to primary email whenever primary email is changed * mds325[18]: clear input when the user closes the modal * dirn[19]: create a shortlink and redirect all requests for /p/<project>/ to /project/<project>/ * cryvate[20]: clarify project counter for searches with tons of results * Mariatta[21]: fix an email-sending issue

And thanks to our many bug reporters, such as Andrew Nesbitt who noticed an RSS feed discrepancy[22].

Check out the current discussion[23] of API keys, a bearer token authentication scheme, and Macaroons in future PyPI.

Want to help? * Talk with Nicole about being a subject or interviewer for user tests![24] She's been focusing on user tests and it's paid off, with a lot of bugs found and designs validated. * Got a good workaround for our CAPTCHA being blocked in China[25]? * Consider joining us at sprints[26] in the next few months. * We have 24 good first issues open[27], and a "getting started"[28] guide, and quick turnaround on code review. *Thanks to Mozilla Open Source Support[29] for their funding[30] for the PyPI & Warehouse work.* -- Sumana Harihareswara Warehouse project manager Changeset Consulting sh@changeset.nyc

P.S. Usually I compose these weekly report emails in plain text; here I'm doing it in HTML with a plaintext fallback. Let me know if it's better, awful, etc. Also nearly no one *replies* to these emails so I'd also welcome your "hey this is useful to me!" offlist reply. Links:

1. https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/milestone/10 2. https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/milestone/1 3. https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/projects/1 4. https://wiki.python.org/psf/PackagingWG/PyPIBetaAnnouncement 5. https://wiki.python.org/psf/PackagingWG/2018-03-12-Warehouse 6. https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/3212 7. https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/3166 8. https://warehouse.readthedocs.io/api-reference/integration-guide/#migrating-... 9. https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/2935 10. https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/3076 11. https://github.com/pypa/conveyor/commits?author=ewdurbin&since=2018-03-0... 12. https://github.com/cabotage/cabotage-app/commits?author=ewdurbin&since=2... 13. https://ernest.ly/imgs/cabotage-release-scale-up-scale-down.gif 14. https://github.com/travis-ci/docs-travis-ci-com/pull/1726 15. https://github.com/pypa/warehouse-camo/pull/1 16. https://github.com/pypa/readme_renderer/pull/65 17. https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/3158 18. https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/3160 19. https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/3165 20. https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/3193 21. https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/3214 22. https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/3238 23. https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/994 24. http://whoisnicoleharris.com/2018/03/13/user-testing-warehouse.html 25. https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/3174 26. https://wiki.python.org/psf/PackagingSprints 27. https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22g... 28. https://warehouse.readthedocs.io/development/getting-started/ 29. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/01/23/moss-q4-supporting-python-ecosystem... 30. https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-psf-awarded-moss-grant-pypi.html