Mailman 3 December 2019 - python-committers

Vote to promote Karthikeyan Singaravelan as a core dev
by Andrew Svetlov Dec. 23, 2019

Dec. 23, 2019

Please participate on https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-karthikeyan-singaravelan-as-a-… to cast a vote. The poll's text is copied below: I (Andrew Svetlov) want to promote Karthikeyan, a developer from India, to the Python Core Developers list. I'm mentoring *Karthikeyan* starting from this spring. He [got triagers privilegy](https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2018-Septemb… on https://bugs.python.org since September of 2018, and he is very active on the bug tracker. He has about [100 Pull Requests](https://github.com/python/cpython/pulls?page=1&q=+is%3Apr+author%…, 80+ were merged already; 5 PRs are waiting for review currently. The main interest are of Karthikeyan is `unittest.mock` library, he helped a lot to add async mock in Python 3.8; he helped me in my work on asyncio issues. Also, Karthikeyan is very strong in reviews, both in formal text part and manual checking that the proposed change is actually working fine. There are about 400 Pull Requests where Karthikeyan was a reviewer in very different areas of the Stadard Python Library. As a triager, he took a part in 125+ discussions on the bug tracker issues; I personally very appreciate this work. Karthikeyan had participated in Core Developers Spring in London this year, some of you had a chance to meet him in person doring the event. Last but not least, Karthikeyan recently received "Google Open Source Peer Bonus" award for his contributions to CPython. I offer to mentor Karthikeyan for a month once he would become a core dev to help him with understanding our workflow and etc. The vote is starting now and will be finished in a week as PEP 13 states: > … It is granted by receiving at least two-thirds positive votes in a core team vote that is open for one week and with no veto by the steering council." https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0013/#membership **Upd** Added a poll widget -- Thanks, Andrew Svetlov

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[RELEASE] Python 3.8.1, 3.7.6, 3.6.10, and 3.9.0a2 are now available!
by Łukasz Langa Dec. 19, 2019

Dec. 19, 2019

from locale import seasons_greetings seasons_greetings() On behalf of the entire Python development community, and the currently serving Python release team in particular, I'm pleased to announce the unprecedented combined release of no less than four versions of Python. Let's dig in! Python 3.8.1 Python 3.8.1 is the first maintenance release of Python 3.8. The Python 3.8 series is the newest feature release of the Python language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. You can find Python 3.8.1 here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-381/ <https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-381/> See the “What’s New in Python 3.8 <https://docs.python.org/3.8/whatsnew/3.8.html>” document for more information about features included in the 3.8 series. Detailed information about all changes made in 3.8.1 can be found in its change log <https://docs.python.org/release/3.8.1/whatsnew/changelog.html#changelog>. Maintenance releases for the 3.8 series will continue at regular bi-monthly intervals, with 3.8.2 planned for February 2020. Python 3.7.6 Python 3.7.6, the next bugfix release of Python 3.7, is also available. You can find the release files, a link to the change log, and more information here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-376/ <https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-376/> Python 3.9.0a2 An early developer preview of Python 3.9 is also ready: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390a2/ <https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-390a2/> Python 3.9 is still in development. This releasee, 3.9.0a2 is the second of six planned alpha releases. Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of new features and bug fixes and to test the release process. During the alpha phase, features may be added up until the start of the beta phase (2020-05-18) and, if necessary, may be modified or deleted up until the release candidate phase (2020-08-10). Please keep in mind that this is a preview release and its use is not recommended for production environments. Python 3.6.10 And, one more thing: Python 3.6.10, the next security fix release of Python 3.6, is also available: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3610/ <https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3610/> We hope you enjoy all those! Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development and these releases possible! Please consider supporting our efforts by volunteering yourself or through organization contributions to the Python Software Foundation. https://www.python.org/psf/ <https://www.python.org/psf/> Your friendly release team, Ned Deily Steve Dower Łukasz Langa

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2020 Steering Council - Results are in!
by Ewa Jodlowska Dec. 16, 2019

Dec. 16, 2019

Hello! The top five vote-getters are: - Barry Warsaw - Brett Cannon - Carol Willing - Thomas Wouters - Victor Stinner Congratulations to Barry, Brett, Carol, Thomas, and Victor! The full results are published in PEP 8101: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-8101/#results. I will send an email to the new Steering Council to schedule a hand-off meeting for the first full week of January. Thank you, Ewa ----------------------- *As a non-profit organization, the PSF depends on sponsorships and donations to support the Python community. Check out our Annual Impact Report for more details: https://www.python.org/psf/annual-report/2019/ <https://www.python.org/psf/annual-report/2019/>* *Please contribute to PSF; we can't continue our work without your support! https://www.python.org/psf/donations/ <https://www.python.org/psf/donations/>*

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Reminder to vote for the 2020 Steering Council
by Ewa Jodlowska Dec. 12, 2019

Dec. 12, 2019

Hi! *This is a reminder that voting will end December 16, 2019 12:00 UTC.* If you have not yet voted, please do so soon. Momentarily, Ernest will resend all the ballots to those that have not voted yet. If you cannot find your ballot, try searching spam for system(a)heliosvoting.org. If you run into any issues, please email myself (ewa(a)python.org) and Ernest (ernest(a)python.org). Thank you, Ewa

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[RELEASE] Python 3.7.6rc1 and 3.6.10rc1 are now available for testing
by Ned Deily Dec. 11, 2019

Dec. 11, 2019

Details here: https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-7-6rc1-and-3-6-10rc1-are-now-availabl… https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-376rc1/ https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3610rc1/ -- Ned Deily nad(a)python.org -- []

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[RELEASE] Python 3.8.1rc1 is now available for testing
by Łukasz Langa Dec. 10, 2019

Dec. 10, 2019

Python 3.8.1rc1 is the release candidate of the first maintenance release of Python 3.8. The Python 3.8 series is the newest feature release of the Python language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. You can find Python 3.8.1rc1 here: https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-381rc1/ <https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-381rc1/> Assuming no critical problems are found prior to 2019-12-16, the scheduled release date for 3.8.1 as well as Ned Deily's birthday, no code changes are planned between this release candidate and the final release. That being said, please keep in mind that this is a pre-release of 3.8.1 and as such its main purpose is testing. See the “What’s New in Python 3.8 <https://docs.python.org/3.8/whatsnew/3.8.html>” document for more information about features included in the 3.8 series. Detailed information about all changes made in 3.8.0 can be found in its change log. Maintenance releases for the 3.8 series will continue at regular bi-monthly intervals, with 3.8.2 planned for February 2020. We hope you enjoy Python 3.8! Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development and these releases possible! Please consider supporting our efforts by volunteering yourself or through organization contributions to the Python Software Foundation. https://www.python.org/psf/ <https://www.python.org/psf/>

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Who wants to be the next tarfile maintainer?
by Lars Gustäbel Dec. 5, 2019

Dec. 5, 2019

Hi! My name is Lars Gustäbel. I am the author of the tarfile module, and I have been its maintainer for over ten years. I have not been active in the bugtracker for a long time now, and I don't see that this will change in the future. There are many open bugs and issues that need attention, and I am sure that many people are dissatisfied with the current situation. Therefore, I think it is best that I resign and someone else takes over as maintainer of tarfile. It goes without saying that I will help with the switch as well as I can. Kind regards, -- Lars Gustäbel lars(a)gustaebel.de

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3.8.1rc1, 3.7.6rc1, and 3.6.10rc1 cutoffs ahead
by Ned Deily Dec. 5, 2019

Dec. 5, 2019

It's that time for another reminder: code cutoffs for the last scheduled releases of 2019 are coming up soon. They are a little earlier than usual to try to avoid the end-of-December rush of various holidays. Łukasz will have more details forthcoming about **3.8.1rc1**. For the **3.7 branch**, the cutoff for **3.7.6rc1** is scheduled for this coming Monday (2019-12-09) by the end of day AOE. I have also now scheduled the cutoff for the next cumulative security source release for the **3.6 branch**, **3.6.10rc1**, for Monday as well. Please review open issues and ensure that any that you believe need to be addressed in any of these releases are either resolved or marked as a **release blocker**. Any assistance you can provide in helping resolve issues will be greatly appreciated. As usual, following the rc1 cutoff, changes merged to the 3.7 branch will be released in **3.7.7** three months from now unless you mark the issue as a release blocker prior to **3.7.6 final**, planned for release on **2019-12-16**, and explain why the change should be cherry-picked into the final release. And as always, any proposed changes for the 3.6 branch need to meet the criteria for security branches and require release manager approval to merge. Thanks for your continued efforts! 3.8 release PEP: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0569/ 3.7 release PEP: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0537/ 3.6 release PEP: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0494/ Security branch criteria: https://devguide.python.org/devcycle/#security-branches -- Ned Deily nad(a)python.org -- []

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Steering Council ballots have been sent!
by Ewa Jodlowska Dec. 2, 2019

Dec. 2, 2019

Hello! All qualified voters should have received ballots as of Dec 2 00:00 UTC. If you cannot find your ballot, try searching spam for system(a)heliosvoting.org. Voting will end December 16, 2019 12:00 UTC. If you run into any issues, please email myself (ewa(a)python.org) and Ernest (ernest(a)python.org). Thank you, Ewa ----------------------- *As a non-profit organization, the PSF depends on sponsorships and donations to support the Python community. Check out our Annual Impact Report for more details: https://www.python.org/psf/annual-report/2019/ <https://www.python.org/psf/annual-report/2019/>* *Please contribute to PSF; we can't continue our work without your support! https://www.python.org/psf/donations/ <https://www.python.org/psf/donations/>*

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