[Catalog-sig] Packaging & Distribution Mini-Summit at PyCon US

[Monty Taylor]

Thrilling. I will be there with bells on and a laundry list in hand.

Seriously - this is becoming a big-ticket item for the OpenStack
Infrastructure team - and I think there are some really big wins to be
had without needing to write distutils4 :) So thanks for organizing this!

Monty

On 02/06/2013 02:15 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> As folks may be aware, I am moderating a panel called "Directions in
> Packaging" on the Saturday afternoon at PyCon US.
> 
> Before that though, I am also organising what I am calling a
> "Packaging & Distribution Mini-Summit" as an open space on the Friday
> night (we have one of the larger open space rooms reserved, so we
> should have a fair bit of space if a decent crowd turns up).
> 
> An overview of what I'm hoping we can achieve at the session is at
> https://us.pycon.org/2013/community/openspaces/packaginganddistributionminisummit/
> (that page should be editable by anyone that has registered for PyCon
> US).
> 
> We're certainly not going to resolve all our disagreements and come up
> with a grand plan to "fix Python packaging" in a couple of hours on a
> Friday night. My hopes are far more modest: that we can get an idea of
> the different things people are worried about and trying to resolve,
> and start pondering ways we can work towards an cooperative ecosystem
> of interoperable tools, rather than the "one tool to rule them all"
> model of distutils.
> 
> I fully expect that discussions on the Friday night will continue as
> hallway track discussions during the conference, development efforts
> at the sprints, and, of course, requests for feedback on the mailing
> lists (since there will likely be quite a few interested people that
> won't be present at PyCon US). This is not a new conversation - it is
> one that has been going on for years, and while some improvements have
> been made, we still have a long way to go.
> 
> For those that are able to make it, I look forward to meeting you in
> person in March :)
> 
> Regards,
> Nick.
>