[Distutils] PyPI/Warehouse (short) weekly report: Progress towards launch milestone

[Laura Hampton]

(This week's report will be a brief update, written by Laura Hampton. Sumana will return later this week.)   

We are continuing to approach the Launch: Redirect pypi.python.org to pypi.org milestone[1]. The redirect is scheduled to happen on Monday, April 16th.  The Warehouse team has been busy closing and responding to issues from legacy PyPI [2], and Dustin is already preparing to remove the beta banner from Warehouse when we reach the Launch milestone[3]. Ernest is working on load-testing infrastructure in anticipation of the launch. We have continued to work on user testing[4], improving accessibility[5], and making changes based on our testers' feedback[6]. Thank you to Nicole for running the tests, and to everyone who helped test and contributed feedback.   

You can help this week by opining in our "needs discussion" issues [7]. If you have expertise in JavaScript, please consider looking at our frontend testing approach[8].  If you are new to the project, please check out our issues labeled "good first issue", or consider contacting Nicole about being a subject or interviewer for user tests[9].  If you will be at PyCon US in Cleveland next month, we will be sprinting, and we'd love to have you join us[10].

Thanks to Mozilla for their support for the PyPI & Warehouse work![11][12]  

Laura Hampton
Laura at laura-hampton . com 

[1]https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/milestone/1 
[2] https://github.com/pypa/pypi-legacy/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed+sort%3Aupdated-desc 
[3]https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/3566 
[4] https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/1317 
[5] https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/3334 
[6] https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/3162
[7] https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3A%22needs+discussion%22 
[8] https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/1297 
[9]http://whoisnicoleharris.com/2018/03/13/user-testing-warehouse.html 
[10] https://wiki.python.org/psf/PackagingSprints 
[11] https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-psf-awarded-moss-grant-pypi.html 
[12] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/01/23/moss-q4-supporting-python-ecosystem/