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.

We're working on Warehouse, setuptools, pip, twine, virtualenv, pipenv, readme-renderer, bandersnatch, conda, conda-build, manylinux, and tox. We're using Pyramid, Pylons, StimulusJS, CSS, static typechecking with mypy, ElasticSearch, Sphinx, and regular Python, and we also need help with Travis CI and continuous integration, and Anaconda and Windows support.

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

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

PyCon North America 2018

Sprint

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

Times: generally 9am-5pm all days

Attending:

• Sumana Harihareswara, Twine and Warehouse maintainer (coordinator) (all 4 days)
• Dustin Ingram, Warehouse maintainer (all 4 days)

• Ernest W. Durbin III, Warehouse maintainer & Infrastructure Working Group chair (partially attending)

• Nick Coghlan, core Python developer (first day)

• Donald Stufft, pip maintainer (first day)

• Luke Sneeringer, Warehouse contributor (hoping to come)

• Thea Flowers, Python Packaging User Guide and readme_renderer maintainer (first day)

• Cooper Lees, bandersnatch maintainer (all 4 days)

• Paul Ganssle, library maintainer (first 2 days)

• Jason R. Coombs, setuptools maintainer (all 4 days)

• Laura Hampton, Warehouse and Twine contributor
• Dan Ryan/techalchemy, Pipenv maintainer (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)
• Kale Franz, conda 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

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

Attending:

• Nicole Harris, Warehouse maintainer (coordinator)
• Pooja Gadige, Warehouse contributor (hoping/planning to come)
• You?

Things we could work on:

• User testing

• Bus factor promo page

• Frontend improvements

PyPA October 2018 sprint at Bloomberg

Dates: Sponsored and hosted by Bloomberg, October 27-28, 2018, simultaneously in London and New York City. We hope mentors can arrive Thursday night 25 Oct, do prep, setup, and dinner on Friday, then participate Sat-Sun, then leave Sunday evening or Monday.

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

If you live in North America or Europe and would need assistance to attend this as a mentor/helper, watch distutils-sig or pypa-dev for more details in July.

TO DO NOW: If you live outside of the US or UK and would need an invitation letter to get a visa to travel to one of these sprints, please write to Kevin P. Fleming at Bloomberg, kpfleming AT bloomberg DOT net, and he'll start setting you up.

Bloomberg will host this, pay for a maintainers'/mentors' dinner the night before, provide clusters of cloud virtual machines for the attendees to use, and book and pay for some contributors' lodging and travel.

Purpose: advance Python packaging/distro tools, teach new contributors (including many Bloomberg employees), and yeah, if you want to get to know Bloomberg for career reasons, that too. See the Tech At Bloomberg site.

Thanks to Bloomberg folks Mario Corchero and Henry Kleynhans in London and Kevin P. Fleming in New York City for coordinating this, and thanks especially to Mario and to Paul Ganssle for suggesting it!

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

Packaging BoF/Open Space at PyCon 2018

Date: We held an open space/Birds of a Feather session, a conversation on packaging.

Attending:

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

• practically everyone listed as attending the sprint -- except Jason R. Coombs could not make it

Topics:

• See this Etherpad

Pipenv BoF/Open Space

Date: May 13, an open space/Birds of a Feather session specifically on Pipenv.

Attending:

• Kenneth Reitz, BDFL of Pipenv (coordinator)

Topics:

• Pipenv