Warehouse weekly meeting notes

Monday, Feb. 12, 2018

Present:

• Sumana
• Laura
• Mark
• Dustin
• Ernest
• Nicole

Current work/announcements:

Ernest:

• "Just dumb week last week."
• [infrastructure discussion]
• working on platform setup for deployments -- can shift into Warehouse mode if blocked on that

Nicole:

• focused on release detail page
• functionality for managing a project is working
• will work on manage email PR
• will do testing of new UI
  • Ernest: Eagerly Volunteers :-D
  • Laura: I can help test UI

• Not blocked, needs Dustin to set up branch for reset password - \o/ - already in progress

Dustin:

• In Progress/blocked
  • Manage Emails
  • Reset Password
  • Delete Account - last bit of work for me in Milestone #1
• Moving on to Milestone #2

Sumana:

• bug triage, doc improvement for PyPA website
• stakeholder communication

Laura:

• twine docs PRs merged https://github.com/pypa/twine/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+author%3Algh2+

• Reviewed PR to add additional emails to account
• Created a draft plan for promotion post-Maintainer MVP milestone:
  • Landing page for testers will be on Packaging WG wiki
  • First reach out to a small group of active maintainers/power users (~100 humans)
  • Then, when power users are happy, reach out to top 100 most active projects
• Brainstorming document for promotional activities: (shared with group)

• Need to test manage email changes PR per Dustin

Mark:

• Donald has approved changes for PEP541, next steps to review and discuss with packaging-wg.
• Worked on [infrastructure], [contact] will hopefully get back to us soon.
• Would like to help with testing of any UI stuff.
• [finance detail]
• Mark out February 19th

Bug/PR triage:

* https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/2850 Support searching for an exact phrase #2850

• Sumana Suggestion: milestone 3, publicizing beta. Search is already better on Warehouse - good contribution for someone familiar with Elasticsearch - nice to have
• Sumana's now updated this.

* https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/345 Ability to mark a version of a package as deprecated or unsupported #345

• Sumana Suggestion: Post-launch
• Sumana's now updated this.

* https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/2206 Sort user page project list by last release date #2206

• Was a PR, closed due to test issues - SH will reach out to see if contributor can work on it again

• https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/pull/2213#issuecomment-352225097 -- had problems with running tests

• Sumana's replied and marked the issue in the beta publicizing milestone

* JSON API documentation https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/2913

• Sumana Suggestion: milestone 4, launch
• PR exists - needs more prose, change pypi.python.org to pypi.org
• Should have this in time to publicize beta -- read-only API for programmatic access
• Break into minimum (user mvp) vs. fuller docs
• Sumana's updated the issue

* Request for Trio trove classifier https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/2881

• Sumana Suggestion: maintainer MVP
• Can only be done by administrator of pypi -- we'll add admin UI to Warehouse before final launch

  • Ernest has done the trove update task, Sumana has moved https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/2649 to milestone 4

* https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/2401 Indicate in UI/API if a name has been prohibited #2401

• Sumana Suggestion: milestone 4, launch
• may allow malicious users to determine what the blacklist is
• FAQ addresses why some names are prohibited - how/where do we currently link to this?
• Have UI for packages removed by author? Not common
• This is a question about UI for *upload*, not search, so how much does it protect non-package-maintainer users?
• PEP 541 to take care of a bunch of this....
• SH will share thoughts with Packaging WG before commenting

* https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/994 Add support for API keys #994

• lukesneeringer wants to scope this out and asks whether anyone objects, volunteers to do this work + two-factor auth
• Yes - Luke can work on this -- mark as post-launch milestone
• Sumana has updated the issue

* https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/360 Add some sort of webhooks support #360

• Sumana Suggestion: post-launch
• New feature, not in legacy
• Sumana has updated the issue

* https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/1855 Expose what extras are available for install #1855

• Sumana Suggestion: cool but not urgent
• Nice to have - nice additional feature
• Sumana updated the issue

* Issue 999

• Nicole asks about this. maintainer MVP - will be closed with change password PR.

Things to ask Donald to do:

Sumana to find out his current PyPA work

Maintainer MVP milestone work remaining:

https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/milestone/8

Still on schedule for maintainer MVP milestone at end of Feb, and in fact, may well be substantially earlier

https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/projects/1 is a helpful overview, teammates say

Dustin and Nicole report they believe their Maintainer MVP issues will be resolved by Monday Feb 19th, unless her UI testing reveals showstoppers

Infrastructure readiness: Barring unforeseen issues, we can promote maintainer MVP on Heroku. Infra changeover needs to be done before milestone 3, but we can shift over a fraction of pip installs starting at milestone 2 -- need monitoring and metrics to do this.

Cautious optimism about publicizing Maintainer MVP middle of next week

To do:

• Sumana to email packaging wg about https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/2401 Indicate in UI/API if a name has been prohibited #2401