[python-committers] Steering Council Update for April 2019

[Berker Peksağ]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 5:55 PM Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> - **Issue tracker:** We've discussed PEP 581, "Using GitHub Issues for
>   CPython" by Mariatta Wijaya.  We're in favor of this move, and feel
>   that the transition should be professionally planned and executed.
>   In collaboration with the PSF we're exploring ideas on how to do
>   that (using the successful roll-out of the new Warehouse
>   infrastructure for PyPI as a model).

I don't think there was a consensus on switching to GitHub Issues last
time it was discussed. The most recent discussion about PEP 581 only
has 12 messages. I think the council is making a premature decision
here.

I'm strongly against using GitHub Issues. I will change my mind once I
see a sign that GitHub is actually listening to our feedback. We can't
even get them to make the use of #NNNN and GH-NNNN in the commit title
configurable (https://github.com/maintainers/early-access-feedback/issues/77)
and have the ability to automatically strip intermediate commit
messages from the commit message body
(https://github.com/maintainers/early-access-feedback/issues/153) The
only time I got a response from them was this:
https://github.com/python/miss-islington/issues/16#issuecomment-396095622

I volunteered to maintain our Roundup instance a while ago and already
fixed some bugs: https://hg.python.org/tracker/python-dev/ I've also
submit patches to improve UX and fix issues. I'd list list them here
but I can't reach out to http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/ at
the moment. I hope the problem with the hosting is temporary because I
have several non-trivial patches there.

--Berker