[Distutils] Fwd: Warehouse update: Estimate for 1st milestone, new announce list

[Sumana Harihareswara]

Our weekly Warehouse update just went out to pypa-dev:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pypa-dev/es_-fC-sdpk  and is
included below.

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Subject: Warehouse update: Estimate for 1st milestone, new announce list
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:33:36 -0500
From: Sumana Harihareswara <sh at changeset.nyc>
To: pypa-dev at googlegroups.com

The big news in Warehouse world is that we tentatively believe we can
get our first milestone[0] out by the end of February. So around then
you can expect emails and other announcements asking package maintainers
to test pypi.org and give us bug reports.

Speaking of announcements, we now have a new PyPI-announce mailing
list.[1] I encourage you to subscribe. It'll be low-traffic and we'll
only post there with major PyPI news.

Ernest is nearing the end of his concentration on infrastructure work,
especially on Cabotage[2] which helps manage our Kubernetes security.[3]
Nicole and Dustin are steadily finishing views and design for maintainer
features (e.g., project edit button[4]). And Laura and Sumana are
preparing for the publicity push around the Maintainer MVP, and have
improved some docs to improve developer experience (e.g., twine[5],
Warehouse testing instructions[6], and the PyPA roadmap[7]).

Details are in our meeting notes from yesterday.[8]

Thanks alanbato for improving Warehouse's error messages![9] If you want
to get started contributing to Warehouse, Ernest wants to help you and
give you stickers, and has 30-minute 1:1 slots available.[10]

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


[0] https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/milestone/8
[1] https://mail.python.org/mm3/mailman3/lists/pypi-announce.python.org/
[2] https://github.com/cabotage/cabotage-app
[3] https://github.com/python/pypi-infra/pull/3
[4] https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/2823
[5] https://github.com/pypa/twine/pull/292
[6] https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/2758
[7] https://github.com/pypa/pypa.io/pull/23
[8] https://wiki.python.org/psf/PackagingWG/2018-01-29-Warehouse
[9] https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/2767
[10] https://twitter.com/EWDurbin/status/955415184339849217
[11]
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-psf-awarded-moss-grant-pypi.html

-- 
Sumana Harihareswara
Warehouse project manager
Changeset Consulting
https://changeset.nyc