We’ve just published the October, November and December steering council update for 2021, also included below: https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/main/updates/2021-10-steerin... https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/main/updates/2021-11-steerin... https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/main/updates/2021-12-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 *October 11* - SC met with the Developer-in-Residence and provided feedback on the Developer-in-Residence activity blog. - SC decided to keep 2020 dates for 2021 election. - SC discussed the draft about the SC's position on the PEP 649 / PEP 563 situation (stringified annotations) and provided feedback. - SC discussed whether or not they should extend their weekly meetings and/or do more async communications. They also decided that the SC should continue having meetings and working during the elections. *October 18* - Steering Council met with the GitHub Issues PM for an update on the migration. Priority right now is getting a testing repo out to the core dev sprint and triagers by Wednesday. - SC reviewed PEP 663 (Standardizing Enum str(), repr(), and format() behaviors) and potential PEP Delegates. - SC reviewed and discussed issues open on https://github.com/python/steering-council/issues *October 19* - SC met with the Search Firm the PSF is using for the Executive Director search, to provide input on the search parameters, and suggest potential candidates. *October 25* - Steering Council did a one hour Q&A recorded session with Visionary sponsor, Bloomberg. - Steering Council discussed PEP 649 and PEP 563 (stringified annotations). The group may want to delegate this to Łukasz but will discuss this more next week. - The candidate PEP Delegate for PEP 663 (Standardizing Enum str(), repr(), and format() behaviors) declined. The Steering Council will think of who else it can be delegated to, or take it on themselves. November 1 - The SC discussed PEP 649 -- Deferred Evaluation Of Annotations Using Descriptors <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0649/> & PEP 563 -- Postponed Evaluation of Annotations <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0563/>. The SC decided it would tell the community that more information is needed. Barry will draft an email explaining the current situation and calling for help from static and dynamic typing users. - The SC reviewed the open issues in the public Steering Council repo: https://github.com/python/steering-council/issues. - The SC discussed SC promotion during the call for nomination period, which started on Nov 1. - The SC discussed PEP 663 - Standardizing Enum str(), repr(), and format() behaviors <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0663/> and that Barry would write the rejection draft. - Brett informed the SC of an issue involving the return type of iterators and the SC decided it would continue discussing it at the next meeting (https://bugs.python.org/issue45250). <https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/main/updates/2021-11-steering-council-update.md#november-8>November 8 - The SC had their bi-weekly meeting with the Developer-in-Residence. Received an update from Łukasz on what he is working on. - The SC discussed PEP 663 - Standardizing Enum str(), repr(), and format() behaviors <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0663/> and after some initial discussion, it was decided that it needs more discussion on python-dev@. - The SC discussed PEP 467 -- Minor API improvements for binary sequences <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0467/>. bchr() was taken out like the SC had requested and then an ascii() method was added in without any mention. Pablo will draft a response. - PEP 554 -- Multiple Interpreters in the Stdlib <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0554/> was discussed. A proof of concept is needed and the SC is not yet ready to review the PEP without it. <https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/main/updates/2021-11-steering-council-update.md#november-15>November 15 - The SC met with Ezio and got an update on what Ezio was working on. SC told Ezio not to be overly concerned with perfection and not to strive for it. The SC gave Ezio a deadline of Dec 7th to get everything migrated over. - The SC discussed a PR to the CPython repo regarding __iter__ and iterators being inconsistently required by CPython ( https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/29170). The SC's decision was to update the definitions to say it's a CPython implementation detail that it is inconsistent in its checking whether what an iterable returns is a proper iterator or not (i.e. keep the __iter__ requirement but admit it isn't rigorously enforced by CPython as a historical accident). Brett committed updates to the PR. - The SC discussed a pull request in the “python/voters” repository that allows core devs to trigger automerge behavior from labels and decided it is fine to merge. - Carol gave an update on the documentation WG: The WG is going to a series of 1 hour monthly meetings and then do the rollout next year. - Barry updated the text for the PEP 663 rejection and sent it out to python-dev@. - Group reviewed text for "The current state of typing PEPs" (i.e. request for PEP 563 and 649) and Barry sent it to python-dev@ <https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/VIZEBX5E...> . - The SC reviewed PEP 646 (Variadic Generics) and Barry sent the approval to the PEP team. - The SC discussed how notes will be taken after Ewa leaves. - The SC discussed PEP 518 (Specifying Minimum Build System Requirements for Python Projects) and how some folks are split on toml. <https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/main/updates/2021-11-steering-council-update.md#november-22>November 22 - The SC met with Łukasz and received an update from Łukasz on his recent work. Additionally, the SC informed Łukasz he should work on upgrading the CLA process. Łukasz will reach out to Yury and Ezio. - The SC discussed Victor's request to remove asynchat and friends prematurely. The SC decided that the removal of asynchat needs to wait another 6 months. - The SC discussed Ethan's email to the SC asking about the re module and its RegexFlag. - The SC discussed the exception for Py_SET_TYPE request. Pablo will write a response to Petr request stating that the change needs to be rolled back in case there are any issues and they need to document any breakage in 3.11. - The SC discussed the various questions pertaining to the current state of typing PEPs. Thomas will draft a response to Chris and Paul's questions and the group discussed Barry's private conversation with a core dev about this as well. - The SC decided that it should be the 2022 SC that decides what happens to python-dev@. <https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/main/updates/2021-11-steering-council-update.md#november-29>November 29 - The SC met with Ezio. The date to do the full migration has been pushed to mid-January. By Dec 7th, Ezio will put all issues into a test repo for python-dev to test and then the migration will happen when Steffen from GitHub returns from vacation in January. - The SC discussed PEP 659 - Specializing Adaptive Interpreter <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0659/> and whether or not it should be a PEP. It was determined that the informational aspect of the writeup is lacking such as how trade-offs are decided. The SC also discussed how different companies working on Python should work especially in terms of transparency. For the time being there will be no communications about this to the PEP authors or the community as the SC wants to discuss this further. This discussion will continue with the new SC as well. December 6 - The Steering Council met with Łukasz to discuss his progress and also introduced Ee to the meeting since Ee will be taking PSF lead on supporting Łukasz going forward. Łukasz updated the team on CLA work, testing Irit's PR for Exception Groups, adding a new triager, and giving a keynote at the PyCode Conference. - The Steering Council discussed the issue Jason posted <https://github.com/python/steering-council/issues/89> about deprecating importlib.resources legacy API. It was decided that Brett would respond to the comment stating that Jason is following policy and that the SC is satisfied, but that the larger discussion on changing the policy should happen on python-dev. The group also discussed how Python's deprecation policy impacts users and library authors. - The group said their goodbyes on Ewa's last day. <https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/main/updates/2021-12-steering-council-update.md#december-13>December 13 - The Steering Council met with Ezio. There is no full import from BPO yet, but he will create one this week. The final migration is still tentatively scheduled for mid-January. Ezio will loop in Thomas on meetings with GitHub, which Ewa previously attended, or other SC members if Thomas can't make it. - The SC prepared for a Talk Python podcast recording after the meeting. <https://github.com/python/steering-council/blob/main/updates/2021-12-steering-council-update.md#december-13-handoff-meeting>December 13 (handoff meeting) - The old Steering Council and the New Steering Council met for the handoff meeting. - The SC discussed several aspects on how it has operated so far. - The SC received an updated from Thomas on the status on the search for a new PSF director. - The SC briefly reflected and discussed the diversity in the Steering Council and how to improve the situation in the future. This topic will be discussed further in the future. - The SC approved a request for a wording change in PEP 654 - Exception groups <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0654/>. - The SC had an overview of unresolved issues: definition/rules for the standard library, split in communication channels and the situation regarding type annotations with PEP 563 and 649. - The new SC decided to use discord as a new communication channel. - The SC discussed the status on the GitHub issues migration and what to do next to push the work forward. Regards from sunny Salamanca, Pablo Galindo Salgado