On Fri, 14 May 2021, 1:47 am Stéfane Fermigier, <sf@fermigier.com> wrote:


On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 8:42 AM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer <arj.python@gmail.com> wrote:
Actual quote by "a Python Software Foundation fellow and contrib-
utor to Python infrastructure projects"

Ah, this is what you were referring to. The document was published 5 years ago, so this may or may not reflect the current situation.
 
What frustrates me most is that we have an all-time high of
Python developers and an all-time low on high quality contri-
butions.[...] As soon as pivotal developers like Armin Ronacher
slow down their churn, the whole community feels it immedi-
ately.

That's true, but, AFAIK, Armin was never a direct contributor to CPython (confirmed by looking at https://github.com/python/cpython/graphs/contributors ) so I guess that's another issue.


The problems mentioned in the Ford Foundation report definitely aren't solved, but one of the contributing factors that the PSF identified at the time was that if core projects like CPython and pypi.org are underfunded, that poor precedent severely hurts fund raising and other sustainability efforts in the wider Python ecosystem.

Thus efforts like the "developer in residence" role that the PSF are currently recruiting for, as well as the increased focus on (and investment in) ecosystem sustainability from commercial users and redistributors.

Cheers,
Nick.