[Distutils] PyPI/Warehouse (short) weekly report: beta, pythonhosted docs, PEP 541

[Sumana Harihareswara]

(A short report this week that doesn't include as much detail about
merged PRs, infrastructure work, and so on, because I've been doing
stuff like writing to python-list/comp.lang.python to ask for
testing[1],  but next week's will have more.)
The new PyPI went to beta this week![2]

Now that PEP 541 is accepted, we are deciding on logistical stuff to
implement it and help deal with name transfer requests[3].
Cool things from the notes from the weekly Warehouse core developers'
meeting[4] include: if your PyPI project has docs already uploaded to
pythonhosted.org, you can now delete those docs[5]. (Further work on
docs transition is forthcoming.) And this week and next week some of our
team are busy with other projects, so code review and issue resolution
will be a little slower.
We have livechats coming up in Twitter & IRC[6] (next one is Friday the
30th), and tomorrow I hope to speak on the OpenNews community call[7] at
noon Eastern Time.
You can help this week by spreading the word[8] about the new PyPI beta
and testing it, by opining in our "needs discussion" issues[9], and by
just being your wonderful selves. Thank you for your help and kind words
through this whole process. It means a lot.
More soon!
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Warehouse project manager
Changeset Consulting
sh at changeset.nyc

Links:

  1. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2018-March/thread.html#732228
  2. https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2018/03/warehouse-all-new-pypi-is-now-in-beta.html
  3. https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/1506#issuecomment-374626455
  4. https://wiki.python.org/psf/PackagingWG/2018-03-26-Warehouse
  5. https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/3413
  6. https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2018/03/warehouse-all-new-pypi-is-now-in-beta.html#livechat
  7. https://opennews.org/what/community/calls/
  8. https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2018/03/warehouse-all-new-pypi-is-now-in-beta.html
  9. https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/labels/needs%20discussion
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