The Steering Council is a bit behind on the community updates, but we just
published the May and June ones (also included below):
https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/main/updates/2021-05-steerin...
https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/main/updates/2021-06-steerin...
Just as a reminder, if you have any questions or concerns, feel free to
contact us or open an issue in the SC repo:
https://github.com/python/steering-council
May 3
- Steering Council used the weekly meeting to record their PyCon US
keynote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEkuOtCQ6vA
https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/27a07634ab171fbe0f2a15f83d64...May
10
- The Core Developers voted to promote Irit Katriel to Core Dev, and the
Steering Council has no objections.
- SC scheduled a PEP review in two weeks.
- SC discussed delegating typing PEPs, but did not reach a conclusion.
- SC discussed PEP 563 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0563 (Postponed
Evaluation of Annotations), the unexpected effects of the change, the
last-minute postponement, and how to prevent similar occurrences in the
future.
https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/27a07634ab171fbe0f2a15f83d64...May
17
- Group discussed documenting SC history and procedures. Carol is going
to start on it in the private repo and then it can pushed out to the public
one.
- Thomas is going to ask Nathaniel for a concrete counter proposal for PEP
654 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0654/ (Exception Groups and
except*).
- Group discussed using Hypothesis in the standard library.
https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/27a07634ab171fbe0f2a15f83d64...May
24
- The Steering Council did PEP review and assigned pings to PEP authors
and sponsors.
- The Steering Council discussed who applied for the
Developer-in-Residence position and Carol placed it on the agenda for June
7th.
- The Steering Council will not be meeting next week due to Memorial Day
in the US.
June 7
- The Steering Council reviewed the résumés received for the
Developer-in-Residence position. The candidates were selected for the
interview process. The Steering Council prepared for Developer in Residence
interviews by reviewing questions for the interviews.
https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/27a07634ab171fbe0f2a15f83d64...June
14
- Steering Council and PSF staff interviewed candidates for the
Developer-in-Residence position, and discussed the interviews immediately
afterwards.
https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/27a07634ab171fbe0f2a15f83d64...June
21
- The Steering Council extensively discussed the Developer-in-Residence
candidates, and made their final selection.
- The SC discussed improving workflows around full-time contributors.
The group will continue to think and discuss this.
https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/27a07634ab171fbe0f2a15f83d64...June
28
- The Steering Council reviewed PEP 654
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0654/ (Exception Groups and
except*). Thomas will schedule a call with Nathaniel and the SC, possibly
for next Monday (July 5), to hear Nathaniel's alternative proposal.
- The SC reviewed PEP 467 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0467/ (Minor
API improvements for binary sequences) and there are concerns about the
value of the change and the future implementation. Thomas was going to
start a draft response, but didn't get around to it.
- The SC reviewed PEP 657
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0657/ (Include
Fine Grained Error Locations in Tracebacks). The group approved it (Pablo
abstained because he's one of the PEP's authors) and Barry sent the
announcement
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-committers@python.org/thread/3W...
to
python-dev@.
- Group discussed the request
https://github.com/python/steering-council/issues/68 around modules
following a provisional policies. Group decided that Barry will reach out
to the module author about importlib.metadata's provisional status. The
group will continue their discussion on how to move forward with
provisional modules/packages.
- Group discussed enum.Enum repr and str changes in 3.10 & 3.11. It was
decided that Barry will email python-dev@ and strongly suggest that we
rollback to 3.9 behavior for 3.10 and write a new PEP for 3.11.
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Thomas Wouters