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, and the entire packaging/distribution toolchain, as usable and robust as possible.

Newcomers are welcome -- we'll help you learn and contribute!

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

PyCon North America 2018

Packaging BoF/Open Space

Sometime May 11-13, we'll hold an open space/Birds of a Feather session, a conversation on packaging.

Attending:

• Peter Wang, founder/CTO of Anaconda
• Ian Stapledon Cordasco, Twine maintainer

• everyone listed below as attending the sprint, we hope

• you?

Topics:

• things listed in the sprint topics below

Sprint

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 (first day)
• Luke Sneeringer (hoping to come)
• Jon Wayne Parrott (first day)
• Cooper Lees (all 4 days)
• Paul Ganssle (first 2 days)
• Jason R. Coombs (all 4 days)
• Laura Hampton
• Dan Ryan/techalchemy (planning to come on first day)

• Bryan Clark, product manager for GitHub (first 2 days)

• Kenneth Reitz, BDFL of Pipenv (first day)
• Michael Sarahan, conda-build maintainer (all 4 days)
• You?

Things we could work on:

• Updating the PyPA roadmap & planning for the next 6-12 months of Warehouse, pip, pipenv, and twine work

  • Articulating which tools cover which jobs in the toolchain, checking for overlaps and gaps in scope

  • Discussing which practices/functionality should be actively discouraged or deprecated in setuptools

  • Sorting out what should be in setup() vs setup.cfg vs pyproject.toml

  • Creating a package index upload API spec

• User testing

  • Walk through the package distributing tutorial and find bugs in our documentation

• API and backend work on Warehouse

  • Determining the new Warehouse API URL structure (and planning to replace the XML-RPC endpoint; Donald Stufft's focus)

  • Bandersnatch mirroring for PyPI

  • Adding API keys and two-factor auth (Luke Sneeringer's project) to Warehouse

  • Adding a "mark this release as deprecated" feature to Warehouse

  • Adding two-phase release upload to Warehouse

• Making a "bus factor" promo page

• Discussing a new Twine API for use by zest.releaser, flit, etc.

• Triaging Packaging Problems issues

• Talking with GitHub product manager Bryan Clark about how GitHub could support Python packagers and package users better

• Talking with Anaconda engineers about conda/pip compatibility, pip resolver reuse, etc.

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

• Frontend improvements

PyPA October 2018 sprint at Bloomberg

Sponsored and hosted by Bloomberg, October 27-28, 2018, simultaneously in London and New York City

Attending: to be determined (both venues can hold dozens of participants)

Things we could work on:

• PyPA roadmap
• next version of virtualenv
• More

Past events

April 2018: 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