Join us at sprints!

We welcome package maintainers, backend and frontend web developers, infrastructure administrators, technical writers, and testers to join us at sprints to help us make the new PyPI as usable and robust as possible.

Members of the Packaging Working Group will be at these sprints:

NYC Python/PyLadies Sprint Night

Thursday, April 26, New York City, NY -- 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM, at Microsoft Technology Center

Attending:

• Laura Hampton (coordinator)
• Sumana Harihareswara
• You? People of all genders are welcome.

Things we could work on:

• User testing

• Good first issues

• Assessing trending projects feed and libraries.io option

PyCon North America 2018

May 14-17, 2018, at PyCon North America in Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Attending:

• Sumana Harihareswara (coordinator) (all 4 days)
• Dustin Ingram (all 4 days)
• Ernest W. Durbin III (partially attending)
• Nick Coghlan (first day)
• Donald Stufft (planning to - not sure which days)
• Luke Sneeringer (hoping to come)
• Jon Wayne Parrott (first day)
• Cooper Lees (all 4 days)
• Pradyun Gedam (potentially, maybe all 4 days)
• Paul Ganssle
• Jason R. Coombs (all 4 days)
• You?

Things we could work on:

• User testing
• Bandersnatch mirroring for PyPI

• Updating the PyPA roadmap

• API keys and two-factor auth?

• Bus factor promo page?

• Package index upload API spec

• Determine new Warehouse API URL structure? https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/284

• Packaging Problems triage

EuroPython 2018

EuroPython in Edinburgh, Scotland, July 28 & 29, 2018

Attending:

• Nicole Harris (coordinator)
• Pooja Gadige (hoping/planning to come)
• You?

Things we could work on:

• User testing

• Bus factor promo page?

PyPA weekend sprint

Sponsored by a company (name to be announced), October 27-28, 2018, simultaneously in London and New York City

Attending: to be determined

Things we could work on:

• PyPA roadmap
• next version of virtualenv
• More